Cervical cancer
Call me brutal, cruel and heartless but the sad death of one recipient of the NPV
HPV vaccination must not stop the program.
If the poor girl was (unknowingly) allergic to needles or elastoplast and died from that, are we seriously going to see a campaign to ban these from all schools - or even everywhere.
What if the poor girl died from the shock and intense fear of an injection. Are we to ban all injections?
Society is becoming risk adverse. No, make that adverse to even the most infinitesimal risk, and that actually causes the rest of us problems.
May contain nuts.
Good sensible warning, but it doesn't stop the rest of us enjoying peanuts.
I have life insurance and intend to defy the insurance companies* by living forever, but no matter how careful I am, I might go under the proverbial bus** tomorrow.
Life is a terminal disease
And until they find a cure, we are only avoiding the inevitable. That doesn't mean we all need to be wrapped in cotton wool to protect the very, very, few. Quite the contrary.
The Government have taken that same decision, and thank goodness some sanity still prevails in Whitehall.
* And the Comhairle
** If it is Bus na Comhairle, then please contact the Police.
If the poor girl was (unknowingly) allergic to needles or elastoplast and died from that, are we seriously going to see a campaign to ban these from all schools - or even everywhere.
What if the poor girl died from the shock and intense fear of an injection. Are we to ban all injections?
Society is becoming risk adverse. No, make that adverse to even the most infinitesimal risk, and that actually causes the rest of us problems.
May contain nuts.
Good sensible warning, but it doesn't stop the rest of us enjoying peanuts.
I have life insurance and intend to defy the insurance companies* by living forever, but no matter how careful I am, I might go under the proverbial bus** tomorrow.
Life is a terminal disease
And until they find a cure, we are only avoiding the inevitable. That doesn't mean we all need to be wrapped in cotton wool to protect the very, very, few. Quite the contrary.
The Government have taken that same decision, and thank goodness some sanity still prevails in Whitehall.
* And the Comhairle
** If it is Bus na Comhairle, then please contact the Police.
8 comments:
I'm not sure the girls' parents would be welcoming of your comments. They are a bit a kin to those of John Doe's comments re Jessica and Holly.
This vaccine is still in trial stage in America and it has caused the deaths of a couple more girls/woman in Australia. Its a bit like the swine flu vaccine.... rushed through and not tested or licenced properly.
If you remember Oprin (Lilley) then it's a bit like that, removed as it caused many deaths after it was heralded as the "wonder" drug for rhumatoid arthritis in the 80s.
NPV.....do you mean HPV?
Please don't discuss something you obviously have no knowledge about.
Better to stick to local squabbling issues instead.
Angus's comment was fair. Every injection of every kind runs a very small risk of an allergic reaction; the substance being injected not always relevant.
For the number of people injected against the cases of adverse reaction, the stats look safe. Cold comfort for the parents, yes; they appear to have been cruelly, extremely, unlucky.
A proportionate response is sensible; don't stop the program, but isolate the particular batch of fluids in case it was one of those. Which is what has happened.
The problem is scaremongering - which is why so many kids have become ill because of their parents believing clinically WRONG, scaremongered, false information about the MMR vaccine printed, without question, in the mass media.
Anon 9:25
This is nothing like John Macleods comments re Jessica and Holly.
There are many treatments available for many illnesses which protect and cure many but kill a few. Should we assume that the few is too big a price to pay for those who are made better or who prevent terrible illness.
I for one cannot wait until the swine flu jab is released and administered to my two high risk children so that I (and they) can breathe more easily and send them to places without fear that they will be infected.
love the forth paragraph... leave it as it is!
The point of this blog posting proved right.
It would be only right that those newspapers who published hysteria about the vaccine published this story equally prominently. It won't happen though.
Result: a proportion of children pulled from the program because their parents stupidly believe everything they read in the papers will die of a cancer preventable by one, safe, jab.
ach, you added the word 'problems' loved (with the emphasis on the 'd')the 4th paragraph!
We now know by the published post mortem results that the child had a massive tumour in her chest - undiagnosed, obviously.
She could have died at any time.
Had the death occurred during a PT lesson, probably the PE teacher would have "got the blame".
It's very sad and I am very sorry for the parents, but such is life.
Not a bowl of cherries, and not the fault of the vaccine.
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