Cancer jab girl had 'underlying condition'

A 14-year-old girl who died shortly after being given a cervical cancer vaccine had a “serious underlying medical condition”, health officials in the UK said tonight.

Natalie Morton collapsed at Coventry’s Blue Coat Church of England School yesterday and died in hospital.

Preliminary results from post-mortem tests indicated it was “most unlikely” the HPV jab caused her death, according to Dr Caron Grainger, joint director of public health for NHS Coventry and Coventry City Council.