Did swine flu jabs give scores of children a crippling sleeping sickness?

Chloe Glasson is 16 years old but she cannot take a bath unsupervised. Nor can she travel on public transport. She’ll never learn to drive, and her hopes of going to university to train as a teacher, let alone living independently, are in tatters.

For Chloe has been diagnosed with narcolepsy — a rare disorder that affects the brain’s ability to regulate the normal sleep-wake cycle.

It was brought on, she believes, by her being given the Pandemrix vaccine in 2009 to inoculate against swine flu.

Chloe is one of around 100 Britons, mostly children, believed to have been affected, with thousands more worldwide.

Not only does the teenager fall asleep up to 15 times a day, she also has cataplexy, a muscle-weakening condition affecting 75 per cent of narcolepsy sufferers. It means that experiencing any strong emotion — from laughter to fear — can cause her entire body to slump uncontrollably to the floor.

Two years ago, in utter despair at her progressive condition, Chloe, from Kirkcaldy in Fife, tried to take her own life. Full story...

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