Did swine flu jabs give scores of children a crippling sleeping sickness? Chloe and Sam are two of 100 Britons thought to have developed narcolepsy after having injection

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 .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk