A teenage girl who died shortly after being immunised against cervical cancer was killed by a malignant chest tumour and not by a reaction to the injection, an inquest in Britain has heard.
Natalie Morton, 14, fell ill on Monday, shortly after being vaccinated at her school under a national immunisation programme against the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus.
She died a few hours later after being admitted to hospital.
A coroner told an inquest the vaccine was not thought to have been a contributing factor and a pathologist said her undiagnosed condition was so severe that death could have arisen at any point.
The drug manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, had recalled the batch of Cervarix vaccine pending an investigation.
