Woman claims she developed narcolepsy after receiving swine flu vaccine

A 26-year-old woman who was given the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine as a teenager has sued in the High Court claiming she developed the sleep disorder narcolepsy as a result.

A 26-year old woman who was injected with the Pandemrix swine flu vaccine as a teenager has sued in the High Court claiming she developed the sleep disorder narcolepsy as a result.

Aoife Bennett was only 16 years old when she got the vaccine as part of a mass vaccination programme as the country braced itself for a threatened human swine flu pandemic ten years ago.