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Cervarix a new HPV vaccine

 
10/05/09 23:58
paulh50
paulh50
I, once, posted an articel about the vaccine Gardasil and here is some information about a new FDA approved Vaccine.

A 14 yr old girld died in Britian shortly after receiving a cervical cancer vaccanation by the drug Cervarix. An investigation has been launched by local health officials. The girl was a student in Coventry, England where Dr. Caron Grainger a director for National Health Service Coventry, stated. The batch of Cervarix has been quarantined and is being tested.

Cervarix is manufactured by UK-headquartered GlaxoSmithKline and has been used in Britian's national immunization for the past then years. It is estimatied that a million girls have received the vaccination which defends against two types of HPV strains that cause cervical cancer.

It was approved in an overwhelmingly affrimmitive vote by the experts at the FDA earlier this month for girls ages 10 to 25. It is expected that the FDA will follow the experts advice and approve it for use in the U.S. and will compete against Gardasil, which has controlled the U.S. market since 2006.

This is just information that I gleaned from the article, nothing in it is copy wrighted.