The Bible warns us about pestilences and diseases as the "End Times" approach.
EL CARMEN DE BOLIVAR—First
their hands and feet feel cold. Then they go pale and cannot move. Some
convulse and fall to the floor.
A mystery illness is
plaguing girls in this town in northern Colombia, and locals say a vaccine
against the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus, or HPV, is to blame.
In El Carmen de Bolivar,
near the port of Cartagena, dozens of teenagers have experienced similar
symptoms. Some have even lost consciousness.
“They vaccinated me in May
and I started fainting in August. My legs became heavy and I couldn’t feel my
hands anymore. When I woke up, I was in the hospital,” recalled 15-year-old Eva
Mercado.
She passed out seven times
in a month.
For most of the families
affected in this town of 67,000, there is no doubt about what is causing the
problem.
They place the blame
squarely on a vaccination campaign against HPV, one of the most common sexually
transmitted diseases, which can trigger cervical cancer.
The city’s modest Nuestra
Senora del Carmen hospital has been overwhelmed by a surge of unconscious
teenage girls being wheeled through its doors.
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