Showing posts with label Gardasil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gardasil. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Spain Withdraws Gardasil After Illnesses


Spanish health authorities have withdrawn tens of thousands of doses of Gardasil, a vaccine against the human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV), after two teenagers who received the shots were hospitalized.The two girls were vaccinated last week as part of a vast government program targeting adolescents. A batch of nearly 76,000 doses of the vaccine has been withdrawn from the market.The vaccine has been available since 2006.