SIXTY people are to receive a multimillion-pound payout from the government after they suffered brain damage caused by a swine flu vaccine.
Most of the victims are children but they also include six health workers. Peter Todd, a lawyer representing many sufferers, said the government would face a bill of at least £60m — £1m for each victim.
“There has never been a case like this before,” he said. “The victims of this vaccine have an incurable and lifelong condition and will require extensive medication.”
Six million British people, mostly children, received the vaccine following the swine flu scare in 2009.
It was later revealed that the vaccine can cause severe epilepsy-type symptoms, called narcolepsy and cataplexy, in up to one in 16,000 recipients —