Boy Awarded $174,000 After Flu Vaccine Causes Permanent Brain Damage

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Young boy awarded $174,000 after vaccine causes him permanent brain damage

The family of a 10-year-old boy who was left permanently brain damaged after receiving a flu vaccine have been awarded $174,000 in damages. 

The British government have compensated Josh Hadfield for his impairment after he received a Pandemrix influenza vaccine when he was four years old in an effort to combat the alleged H1N1 flu pandemic.

Wearechange.org reports:

Within weeks, the toddler began exhibiting a host of frightening symptoms, indicating something was very wrong. Hadfield would sleep for up to 19 hours a day, and when he was awake, he would suddenly fall asleep during activities such as walking, eating and swimming. Laughter sent him spiraling into a seizure, the Daily Mail reports.

Hadfield was eventually diagnosed with narcolepsy, and he was not the only one. More than 1,300 people who received the Pandemrix vaccine developed narcolepsy, “an incurable, debilitating condition that causes overpowering daytime sleepiness, sometimes accompanied by a sudden muscle weakness in response to strong emotions such as laughter or anger,” according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

It’s now understood that the Pandermrix vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, is linked to a 14-fold increase in a child’s risk for developing narcolepsy, resulting in the vaccine being removed from the UK market.

But this information came too late to save Hadfield. Despite his serious and life-altering condition, the government initially refused to compensate the Hadfield family, arguing that the boy wasn’t “severely disabled” enough.

In the UK, a Vaccine Damage Payment system is used to compensate those injured by an immunization. In order to quality, an individual must be 60 percent disabled and have received the vaccine inside the country. Eligibility also hangs on whether or not a person was injured by one of 16 vaccines, some of which includethe human papillomavirus, measles, mumps, rotavirus, smallpox, tuberculosis, the flu and whopping cough.

If one does qualify, they may receive £120,000, or about $170,000 USD, but the payment can interfere with a person’s eligibility to continue receiving government benefits including income support, working tax credit and pension credit.

Mother launches campaign to fight for vaccine-injured son.

Refusing to accept the government’s decision to deny Hadfield compensation, the boy’s mother, Caroline, 45, fought ferociously, and eventually won a settlement in the amount of £120,000. Winning was a “huge relief,” she said.

“It will help secure Josh’s future – it’s just a shame we had to jump through this amount of hoops to get this far,” Caroline said “Josh has had to work incredibly hard because he misses lessons due to sleep and medical appointments.”

She said her son is forced to take at least one to two naps during the school day, and has gained a significant amount of weight as a result of his medication. He also suffers from cataplexy, a condition affecting muscle control for which he showed no symptoms prior to vaccination.

Vaccine caused child to become 72 percent disabled.

The mother and her husband moved forward with legal action after learning the Pandermrix vaccine resulted in a 14-fold increase in narcolepsy for children.

“To succeed in the appeal, we had to satisfy the tribunal that he had a 60 per cent disablement or more and they, in fact, concluded that he was 72 per cent disabled based upon his present symptoms. They were also critical of the medical evidence provided by the secretary of state which they considered had not taken into account the whole picture,” said Caroline.

“He was a perfectly healthy energetic four-year-old before the vaccination, but within two weeks he was getting more tired and after three weeks he was sleeping for 19 hours. Things then developed quickly and he struggled to walk. Nothing could convince me it was anything but the jab which caused Josh’s conditions. The Government had a knee-jerk reaction to swine flu and put out this vaccine, giving it to very young children,” she said.

Researchers say Pandermrix triggers antibodies that can bind to brain cell receptors responsible for regulating sleep, causing an autoimmune deficiency in those genetically at risk.

4 Comments

  1. Good to hear that the boy’s parents were awarded compensation but parents who allow their children to be vaccinated against the flu or any other disease are frankly suffering from vaccination propaganda-induced ignorance. Parents need to to do their own research and not blindly trust the authorities who promote this organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention by means of junk science. Also, that vaccines are designed, made and used not to prevent, but to promote ill-health as only sick people are profitable for the medical-pharmaceutical establishment, while healthy people are not. Unlike the parents who fall for this medical fraud and child abuse, the people behind the push for vaccination are not stupid; they are very clever, but evil with it.

  2. Good to hear that the boy’s parents were awarded compensation but parents who allow their children to be vaccinated against the flu or any other disease are frankly suffering from vaccination propaganda-induced ignorance. Parents need to to do their own research and not blindly trust the authorities who promote this organised criminal enterprise dressed up as disease prevention by means of junk science. Also, that vaccines are designed, made and used not to prevent, but to promote ill-health as only sick people are profitable for the medical-pharmaceutical establishment, while healthy people are not. Unlike the parents who fall for this medical fraud and child abuse, the people behind the push for vaccination are not stupid; they are very clever, but evil with it.

  3. When will the child be awarded the other million, $174.000 is nothing. It should be added to incrementally  as the child gets older and his needs change. That is a disgraceful award for a medical giant GlaxoSmithKline, to be ordered to pay for the destruction of this child’s life. The child’s parents should take legal advise, which would reject this tiny i assume fixed sum. indeed it is a fraction of what the child would be awarded in any other other Democratic jurisdiction.  Compensation should be at the maximum scale. Some qualified legal eagle must make themselves available to this helpless child. His legal rights are been trampled on.

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