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14 December 2008

Cervical cancer jab left my 12-year-old daughter paralysed, says mother

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Ashleigh Cave

Concern: Ashleigh Cave, 12, has been paralysed

since October after collapsing soon after having a cervical cancer vaccine jab

A mother has spoken of her fears after her

daughter developed a mystery illness half an hour

after receiving the cervical cancer vaccine.

Schoolgirl Ashleigh Cave collapsed shortly after

she was given the jab at school and is now paralysed from the waist down.

The 12-year-old, from Aintree, Liverpool, has

been confined to a bed in Alder Hey children's hospital since October 24.

And Ashleigh's 37-year-old mother Cheryl wants an

investigation into the safety of the drug she

blames for her daughter's illness.

'At first they tried to tell us she was imagining

it because she was being bullied,' she said.

'They will not mention her illness and the vaccine in the same sentence.

'Ashleigh is angry - she does not know what is going on.'

Mrs Cave said Ashleigh was now undergoing

physiotherapy to help her regain movement in her legs.

Worrying: Ashleigh with her mother Cheryl at Alder Hey hospital

Worrying: Ashleigh with her mother Cheryl at

Alder Hey hospital - she has been bed-bound since

October after collapsing during a family trip to London

Dr Curran, a consultant paediatrician at

the hospital, said yesterday: 'I can say with

complete certainty that she is demonstrating no

pathological reaction to her vaccination.'

The drug safety watchdog, the MHRA, has been

notified of the case. It does not believe the

cervical cancer jab brought on Ashleigh's illness.

The Cervarix vaccine is currently being given to

all girls aged 12 and 13 in a nationwide programme.

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It guards against infection by the sexually

transmitted disease HPV, which causes 70 per cent

of all cases of cervical cancer.

Mass vaccination will save around 700 lives a year, experts say.

Jackie Fletcher

Alert: Jackie Fletcher of anti-vaccine

organisation Jabs wants the HPV vaccine programme stopped

Although the cancer does not usually strike until

middle age, the jab has to be given to girls before they start having sex.

This has led anti-vaccine groups to claim it will encourage promiscuity.

The school vaccination programme followed

clinical trials in 2005 on more than 18,000 women under the age of 26.

But critics have claimed the five-year study was

too short and not enough pre-pubescent girls were involved in it.

After separate clinical trials, the U.S. started

using a similar vaccine called Gardasil.

Since then there have been dozens of 'adverse

events' reported, including 30 deaths, as well as

cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome - a

little-understood malfunctioning of the immune

system which can cause paralysis.

A spokesman for the MHRA said: 'Guillain-Barré

syndrome naturally occurs in the population.

There is no good evidence to suggest that the Cervarix vaccine can cause it.'

But Jackie Fletcher, of anti-vaccine organisation

Jabs, said: 'We should halt the HPV vaccine

programme in the UK until we get to the bottom of

whether this poor girl's paralysis was caused by the vaccine or not.'

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