Solicitors to begin legal action over narcolepsy link to vaccine

Solicitors will shortly serve legal proceedings on the State on behalf of six adult narcolepsy victims who developed the condition after receiving the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine.

One Wicklow-based solicitor is representing up to 35 narcolepsy sufferers, many of them children. They all want to take cases against the State, the HSE, the Department of Health, and GlaxoSmithKlline over the scandal.

The solicitor, Michael Boylan, described the effects of the Pandemrix jab as a “health scandal and disaster”. He said that so far, the Government has taken a “head-in-the-sand” approach to the narcolepsy scandal and has only made a “tacit acknowledgement” of the side effects by distributing temporary medical cards to those affected. He is calling for a redress scheme.