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Tag Archives: Cervarix

Harper: “I didn’t say that”

By 6000 | 6000 | October 11, 2009

Following on from my post about the Natalie Morton case - in which a 14-year old girl died from a thoracic tumour, coincidentally on the day that she received the HPV “Cervical Cancer” vaccine, Cervarix – I was surprised (to say the least) to hear that Diane Harper, a woman involved with the development and testing of HPV [...]

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Damage done

By 6000 | 6000 | October 1, 2009

So Sky News now tell us that 14-year old Natalie Morton died as a result of a “malignant tumour in her chest which affected her heart and lungs” and that her death was “nothing to do with the vaccine that she had at school”. This report is in stark contrast to their previous report which contained the unattributed quote [...]

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