Victims of brain damage as a result of swine flu vaccination in the UK are to be awarded $60 million pounds in compensation. The UK government will award 60 people $1 million pounds each in compensation for suffering permanent brain damage as a result of the swine flu vaccine. The swine flu outbreak in 2009 led to the administration of a swine flu vaccine to approximately 60 million residents in Britain. Most of those vaccinated were children. The vaccine is called Pandemrix and is made by the drug company Glaxo Smith Kline. It has subsequently been discovered that the vaccine can cause narcolepsy or cataplexy in approximately one in 16,000 people. According to Peter Todd, a lawyer who represented many of the claimants, "There has never been a case like this before. The victims of this vaccine have an incurable and lifelong condition and will require extensive medication." Narcolepsy and cataplexy are autoimmune diseases that cause a person to become unconscious and fall into a sleep-like state several times throughout the day. They also reduce a person's ability to stay asleep at night. Amphetamines are the most commonly used drugs for keeping the sufferer awake during the day. These are terrible diseases that significantly reduce quality of life and typically lead to serious depression. Surely in this case it would be far less harmful to just get the flu. There is strong evidence linking the administration of various vaccines with the development of autoimmune disease.   Reference