Cervarix (GSK) - Girl(12) paralysed 30 min after jab.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5337885.ece

From The Sunday Times

December 14, 2008

Mystery illness paralyses girl given cervical cancer jab

Foggo and Philip Cardy

A 12-year-old schoolgirl has been left paralysed from the waist

down by a mystery illness that came on 30 minutes after she was given

the new anticervical cancer jab.

Ashleigh Cave suffered dizziness and headaches soon after the

vaccination at her school and then deteriorated rapidly, collapsing

several times over the following days.

A week later she was admitted to hospital after losing all

strength in her legs and, two months on, there has been no improvement.

Her mother Cheryl, 37, from Aintree, Merseyside, is blaming her

daughter's condition on the human papillomavirus (HPV) jab, which was

introduced in Britain in September as part of a government-funded

vaccination programme.

All girls aged 12 and 13 are being offered vaccinations with

Cervarix, a drug that stimulates the body to defend itself against

HPV, to protect against the later onset of cervical cancer which is

linked to the virus.

In America, where an immunisation programme using a similar

product, Gardasil, began more than a year earlier, there have been

dozens of serious " adverse events " reported in which a link to the

vaccinations is suspected.

They included 30 deaths in addition to cases of Guillain-Barré

syndrome, an auto-immune disease that can cause paralysis. The

American authorities have said, however, that there is no evidence the

HPV jabs caused these reactions.

Ashleigh's case has been logged with Britain's Medicines and

Healthcare products Regulatory Agency as an instance of possible

Guillain-Barré syndrome, although her doctors have now apparently

ruled it out as the cause.

The agency has also indicated that the illness was probably not

caused by the jab. Ashleigh's doctor at Alder Hey children's hospital,

Liverpool, where she is undergoing tests, has said she did not have a

" pathological reaction " to the vaccine.

Cheryl Cave said that she found the timing of her daughter's

symptoms impossible to ignore.

She said that within 30 minutes of Ashleigh having the jab at

Maricourt Catholic high school on the morning of October 15, she was

complaining of severe headaches and dizziness. Over the next 48 hours

her condition worsened and she collapsed five times. Two days later

they set off to visit friends in Hampshire but the schoolgirl

collapsed again on the train.

She was admitted to Frimley Park hospital in Camberley, Surrey,

where doctors gave the initial diagnosis of " vertigo and generalised

myalgia, probably due to recent vaccinations " .

On October 22, a week after she was given the HPV jab, she was

admitted to Alder Hey hospital, where she has remained ever since.

Her mother said: " At first they tried to tell us she was imagining

it because she was being bullied . . . they will not mention her

illness and the vaccine in the same sentence. "

A spokesman for the medicines agency said: " Guillain-Barré

syndrome naturally occurs in the population. There is no good evidence

to suggest that the Cervarix vaccine can cause [it]. "

GlaxoKline, which makes Cervarix, said that the agency had

suggested the case " was not linked to the vaccine " .

* Have your say

We may all look similar, but inside our bodies we are not, and its

time that drug companies realised this, and no ammount of testing can

say that a drug is safe. I would not have allowed a Daughter of mine

to be placed on a vaccine like this. We have more illnesses despite

the many drugs now offered

Kathleen Ranger, Fleet,

How is it possible, or credible for Ashleigh Cave`s doctor to rule

out Cervarix as being the cause of her condition, when he can`t even

work out what is wrong with her in the first place?

Nick Wells , Reigate,

I'd be generally worried about the mercury carrier on an

epidemiological basis in respect to a whole range of vaccines- the

bioaccumulation in the brain phenomena especialy in relation to

certain vulnerable people ; very old and very young. More research is

required.

Malachy McAnespie, Belfast, Co Antrim