A mediator in the High Court action of a 16-year-old girl who sued claiming she developed a rare sleep disorder after receiving a swine flu jab has recommended a €1.28 million award in her case.
The teenager who cannot be named by order of the court received the Pandemrix vaccine when she was almost five years of age, and she was diagnosed with the sleeping disorder narcolepsy and cataplexy, an associated muscle weakness four years later.
Her case follows on the case of a 16-year-old boy who settled his action last November in a groundbreaking settlement which paved the way for the resolution of 80 cases over the Pandemrix vaccine.
