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Report #2859265

Received Sep 17, 2025

Hospitalized
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Overview

Sex
Female
Age
13 yrs
State
VA
Recovered
Not recovered
Vaccinated
Aug 28, 2025
Onset
Aug 28, 2025
Days to onset
0
Hospital days
—

Vaccines (1)

TypeNameManufacturerDoseLotRoute / Site
HPV9HPV (GARDASIL 9)MERCK & CO. INC.2—OT / LA

Symptoms (6)

Barium swallow normalComputerised tomogram normalDysarthriaDysphagiaMagnetic resonance imaging normalTremor

Symptom narrative

she experienced slurred speech; Tongue tremors; trouble swallowing; Having hard time eating; This spontaneous report was received from a consumer concerning a 13-year-old female patient. The patient's pertinent medical history, past drug reactions or allergies, concurrent conditions were not provided. Concomitant medications included Propanolol. On 28-AUG-2025, the patient was vaccinated with the second dose of Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant (GARDASIL®9), administered by Intravenous (not otherwise specified) route in Left Arm (strength, lot # and expiration date were not reported) as prophylaxis. On that same day after the second dose (reported as ''5 hours after''), she experienced slurred speech, trouble swallowing and tongue tremors. Consumer advised she took her daughter to and then she gave it couple more days and called her neurologist and then she took her to the emergency room (ER) and she was admitted on 03-SEP-2025 and the patient was hospitalized for a day and half after receiving the Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant (GARDASIL®9)vaccine . On unspecified date in September 2025, while in the hospital they did labs a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerized tomography (CT) and swallow test and all of the tests came back normal. Consumer advised her daughters side effects were getting worst and her speech was still slurred and now she was having a hard time eating and she was having problems swallowing her spit. At the reporting time, she had not recovered from the events. The causality between Human Papillomavirus 9-valent Vaccine, Recombinant (GARDASIL®9) and all the events was not reported. Lot # is being requested and will be submitted if received.

Other medications

propanolol

Lab data

Test Date: 202509; Test Name: MRI; Result Unstructured Data: Normal; Test Date: 202509; Test Name: CT; Result Unstructured Data: Normal; Test Date: 202509; Test Name: swallow test; Result Unstructured Data: Normal