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SCMP Reporter

The Centre for Health Protection is investigating another stillbirth involving a 28-year-old  woman who received the swine flu vaccination seven weeks ago. 
It is the third reported  stillbirth  since the vaccination programme was launched  in December.
The centre  concluded that the previous two cases - involving  women aged 33 and 37, one with a chronic illness and the other diabetes - were unlikely to have been caused by the swine flu jab.
The  woman in the latest case was admitted to  Tuen Mun Hospital yesterday with vaginal spotting. Doctors were unable to detect a fetal heartbeat  during examination and later confirmed it had died. 
The centre said the woman,  who was 39 weeks' pregnant, had a history of good health. She  received the human swine flu vaccination at a  health centre on December 21.  
She is in stable condition at the hospital. A centre spokesman  said investigations for common causes of stillbirth - including infection, and genetic and metabolic disorders - were  being carried out.  
'So far no causal relationship has been found between the human swine flu vaccination and intrauterine death. The centre will closely monitor the woman's clinical progress and results of further investigation,'  he said.
There are about 150 to 220 stillbirths a year in Hong Kong. Roughly 15 to 70 per cent of these cases do not have an identifiable cause. 
The centre  said the World Health Organisation had found no harmful effects from the vaccine with respect to pregnancy or a developing embryo or fetus. Six other women who had the vaccination have suffered miscarriages.



Third woman suffers stillbirth after having swine flu vaccination