Disability alleged in one third of vaccine claims

AT LEAST a third of 125 vaccine damage claims made to the Department of Health allege severe mental or physical disability as a result of state-promoted vaccination programmes dating back to the 1980s.

The Vaccine Damage Steering Group, set up in 2007, presented its report to the Health Minister in recent weeks, but it has yet to be published.

In the submissions seen by the Irish Examiner, a litany of mental and physical handicaps are cited, with at least a third of those relating to serious brain damage and/or physical handicap.