Narcolepsy "Epidemic"

Is that the French firm who decided who gets disability who was doing the compensation evaluation?

It was awful for them, poor things. Was it the same little boy who got up in the night and ate and said to camera how much he loved his family? He was so lovely.

A problem though for Glaxosmithkline, as I don't think the parents were letting the situation end there, were they?

If it has been proved that the drug company's product was the cause of the illness, surely they must have to compensate those affected? Unless, of course, they did everything right throughout the drug's trial stage, in which case it then seems more complicated to me. I didn't watch the programme. These are thoughts off the top of my head based on the information in the OP.

I saw that programme and was horrified Eloethan These poor children will be severely affected for the rest of their lives. It's the same old, same old, as far as the drugs companies go, delay and denial. What is worse is the government refusing payment under the Vaccine Damaged compensation scheme.

It will of course happen eventually, as theses parents all.over Europe are united and will not let it go, but that will be years down the line.

What a lottery. Two of my grandchildren had this vaccination, it could easily have affected them like this.

The company concerned is SmithGlaxoKline.

Oops, it's as Ruby said GlaxoSmithKline.

I hope one of those faceless mandarins who concluded that these young people are not damaged enough to receive compensation for having their lives turned upside down watched the programme.
Narcolepsy with or without cataplexy, is a dreadful, irreversible, disease and depending where you live the NHS may, or may not, allow prescriptions for some of the few drugs which help sufferers to cope.

I'm sure it is a dreadful disease, but lots of people have dreadful diseases and disabilities and get no 'compensation'. The issue is whether there was/is any negligence or carelessness on the part of the drug producers if, and only if, the drug in question has been proved to have actually caused this narcolepsy epidemic.

It appears the link has been accepted

As this report from 2013 appears to suggest. So why is compensation still being refused?

Isn narcolpsy a name for sex with dead bodies

The last two prargraphs of that article are important, I think:

"The decision to recommend that children got this vaccine during the flu pandemic was based on evidence available at the time, along with the advice from the European Medicines Agency which approved its use.

"We keep all emerging evidence under review and that's why use of Pandemrix in those less than 20 years old was stopped in the UK in 2011."

You are thinking of necrophilia, Ethel (but I hope you are not considering it!)

Narcolepsy is falling asleep all the time - I suppose someone could have sex with a dead body in their sleep if their partner had died while they were not awake enough to notice, but I don't think the two things are connected

sound yukky, not my thing, Im scared of dead bodies. Must try to remember, necrophilia is dead bodies and necrolepsy is a nerve disease.
ok, I learn something new everyday.

Ummmm - NARCOlepsy not NECROlepsy. I wonder what necrolepsy would mean? Will look it up.

Ahh! It means sudden death "Necrolepsy is a disorder marked by sudden, uncontrollable death, causing an individual to die at inappropriate times." All times are inappropriate, I would have thought, and all death is pretty uncontrollable.

And narcolepsy means sudden sleep - yes of course because narcotics send you to sleep. And epilepsy is "sudden recurring attacks of motor, sensory, or psychic malfunction with or without loss of consciousness or convulsive seizures"

As you say, we learn something new every day.
All a bit off the original topic, sorry.

Actually, dead bodies are not going to do anything to scare you - they can't hit you or say nasty things. The people they were have moved on. Less scary than living people, really.

Been watching too many horror films, I guess.