A 26-year-old Costa Rican woman is suing Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health, alleging she has been left partially paralyzed after receiving an injection of Gardasil, a vaccine which is intended to vaccinate against the human papillomavirus (HPV), the virus most responsible for cervical cancer in women, the daily La Nacion reports.

According to the woman, Laura Navarro Calvo, her lower limbs became unresponsive just 24 hours after receiving the vaccine in August 2014, following her gynecologist’s recommendation. She has been confined to a wheelchair ever since, and is unable to control her bowels.

Despite being perfectly healthy before receiving the vaccine, Navarro now suffers from spastic paraparesis, the partial loss of voluntary motor function of the lower limbs.

In a written statement declaring Navarro legally disabled, neurologist Marvin Heyden Cordero at the public Hospital Mexico wrote that Navarro “was injected with a dose of Gardasil the day before the onset of symptoms. We are unable to find another cause [for the woman’s condition].”

Navarro is now filing a lawsuit against Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health for approving and authorizing the use of the Gardasil vaccine in the country, “despite knowing the significant risk of the vaccine causing severe damage, including paraplegia,” the woman’s attorney, Gerardo Huertas Angulo, told La Nacion.

According to the attorney, the lawsuit will be the first of its kind in Costa Rica.

In 2008, documents obtained by Judicial Watch in the United States under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that during just that year, there were 6,723 adverse affects related to Gardasil in the United States; of those, 1,061 were “serious,” 142 were considered “life threatening” and 28 deaths related to Gardasil were recorded.

A number of other cases of partial or complete paralysis in girls and young women shortly after having received the vaccine have also been reported by the media since the vaccine was introduced in 2006.

The Ministry of Health authorized the sale and marketing of Gardasil, manufactured by pharma giant Merck, in private pharmacies and clinics in March 2007. It is currently not provided by the public health system, CCSS.