November date for second lead action over swine flu vaccine

Wed, 15 Jul, 2020 - 16:51

Ann O’Loughlin

The second lead action of about 100 cases over a vaccine developed in response to the swine flu pandemic of 2009 and 2010 has been provisionally fixed for hearing at the High Court in November.

Benjamin Blackwell, now aged 15, from Ratoath, Co Meath, claims he contracted narcolepsy, a sleep disorder, and cataplexy, associated muscle weakness, after he received the Pandemrix vaccine in 2010.