‘Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical firm is being sued by 38 people – including 19 children – who developed the rare sleep disorder narcolepsy after taking the swine flu vaccine.
Scientists from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) found evidence of a link between GlaxoSmithKline’s Pandemrix jab and narcolepsy cases in children earlier this year.
The vaccine was given to around 6m people in the UK in 2009-11. The HPA estimated that the vaccine could have caused narcolepsy in around one in every 55,000 cases in a study of four to 18-year-olds.
Law firm Hodge Jones & Allen said that compensation could be up to or possibly exceeding £1m for each case.’
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