Published 1 October 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b4032
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;339:b4032

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Teenager who died after having HPV vaccine had a malignant chest tumour

Adrian O’Dowd

1 London

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An English teenager who died shortly after receiving the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cervarix had a large malignant tumour in her chest, which caused her death, public health doctors have said.

A pathologist confirmed on 1 October that results of a post mortem examination into the death of 14 year old Natalie Morton from Coventry found a tumour of unknown origin in her heart and lungs.

There was no indication that the HPV vaccine contributed to her death, "which could have arisen at any point," said Caron Grainger, joint director of public health for NHS Coventry and Coventry City Council.

The pupil of Coventry Blue Coat Church of England School and Music College was given the HPV vaccine on 28 September as part of routine vaccination against cervical cancer but died a few hours later.

NHS Coventry quarantined the batch of vaccine used as a precautionary measure and informed the . . . [Full text of this article]


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