Parents Of Baby Girl Swine Flu Vaccine Victim Suing State Government

LOVING FAMILY: Mick and Kirsten Button with daughter Saba and son Cooper
The parents of a baby girl who was a victim of last year's flu vaccine debacle are suing the State Government in a potential multimillion-dollar damages claim. Mick and Kirsten Button's daughter, Saba, suffered global brain injury plus kidney, liver and bone marrow failure after prolonged seizures following her vaccination shot. She may never walk or talk. Legal experts believe a payout of more than $10 million is not out of the question. The Sunday Times understands a writ will be served in the District Court this month. The Buttons have engaged medical litigation specialist Julian Johnson, and any compensation would help pay for what happened to Saba as well as provide access to the best available treatment and care for the future. Before Saba had her shot there had been more than 100 "adverse reaction'' presentations at PMH as well as dozens of troubling reports around the state. But this information wasn't passed on to the general public until a fter Saba was in the intensive-care unit.

Billy Rule, Perth Now

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Doctors Must Return GlaxoSmithKline Swine Flu Vaccines Causing Narcolepsy

The Heath Service Executive (HSE) will remove all stocks of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix from GPs' surgeries, the Sunday Independent has learned. The vaccine has been linked to the disabling sleep disorder, narcolepsy. Last week, this newspaper revealed that eight people who received the swine flu vaccine in Ireland have developed the devastating disorder, with most of the cases involving teenagers and young adults. Now, the HSE has taken the decision to visit GP surgeries around the country and collect the vaccine made by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. In additional information supplied to family doctors, the HSE describes narcolepsy as "a disabling chronic neurological disorder characterised by recurrent episodes of excessive daytime sleepiness." However, it also noted that narcolepsy is often accompanied by a range of other frightening symptoms including cataplexy -- a sudden loss of muscle tone that is often confused with epilepsy and sometimes leads to a total collapse of the patient. Other symptoms that can develop gradually include sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations -- extremely vivid hallucinations that occur at the boundary between sleeping and waking.
Jerome Reilly, Independent.ie

Swine Flu Vaccine Causes Boy To Lose Control Of His Body

Altered: After having the Pandemrix vaccine, Joshua changed from being a happy, energetic child to a depressed, angry child with narcolepsy

He used to love nothing more than a giggle with his friends. His mother Caroline believes he has contracted narcolepsy with cataplexy after having a swine flu vaccination. It is the first case of its kind to be made public. The European Medicines Agency is now investigating whether the swine flu jab could be responsible for Joshua’s condition, as well as five other cases in the UK. The probe began after a rise in cases of narcolepsy in children given Pandemrix, which is produced by GlaxoSmithKline, in Finland and Sweden. Last month experts in Finland discovered that children who had the jab were nine times more likely to become narcoleptic than those who did not.

Lydia Warren, Daily Mail