Lawsuit Seeks Justice for Vaccine Injury Victim

Lawsuit Seeks Justice for Vaccine Injury Victim

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/March2006/14/c1639.html

TORONTO, March 14 /CNW/ - When Lucia Morgan submitted to a mandatory
hepatitis B vaccine in 1994 as a condition of employment for the Ontario
Government's Parkdale Community Health Centre, she was not informed by the
City of Toronto health nurse who administered the first injection of a series
of three shots of possible health risks associated with the vaccine or adverse
reactions that might ensue. A lawsuit launched on Morgan's behalf seeks
damages from the City of Toronto for multiple injuries and well documented
functional brain injury resulting from adverse reactions to the hepatitis B
vaccine.

Lucia Morgan was hired by the Parkdale Centre to work as a social worker
with street people and needle exchange programs. Within half an hour after the
first injection she experienced severe flu like symptoms and fatigue. When
Morgan informed the Toronto Health Department about her reaction, she was
berated for being an anti-vaccine "crackpot". The City of Toronto did not file
a vaccine adverse event report as required by the Ontario Health Protection
and Promotion Act.

Two months later, shortly after receiving the second challenge
immunization, she experienced similar, but even more severe symptoms from
which she did not recover and left work permanently. Her health deteriorated
dramatically. No longer able to work and bedridden for the next 6 months, she
suffered multiple disabilities including diminished concentration, short and
long term memory loss, chronic joint pain, chronic exhaustion, irritable bowel
syndrome, severe headaches, blurred vision, swollen glands, reduced hearing,
decreased co-ordination, and other debilitating symptoms. Unknown to her, all
of these complaints had been documented in the medical literature.

Two years prior to the vaccine reaction and injury, Morgan had completed
a Masters degree in Education. She was a vibrant and outgoing woman who was
involved in many diverse activities. Now she can barely read or hold a
conversation. A Brain Spect revealed damage to frontal and temporal lobes and
base of cerebellum, many left posterior parietal problems, and aberrant holes
in gray matter. There was also injury to the middle cerebral artery on both
sides. In other words, Lucia Morgan had sustained extensive, irreversible
functional brain injury triggered by what appears to be an autoimmune reaction
to hepatitis B vaccine.

Morgan has been investigated and treated by her family physician and a
number of specialists, including Dr. Byron Hyde of the Nightingale Research
Institute in Ottawa, all of whom confirm that her injury and present symptoms
relate to the two hepatitis B injections of July and September 1994. Dr. Hyde
has investigated multiple hepatitis B vaccine injured patients.
Unlike many western countries which recognize and compensate vaccine
injuries, Canada offers no recognition nor compensation when vaccine damage
occurs - except for the province of Quebec. Since 1987, the U.S. government
has paid out in excess of 1 billion dollars in compensation to vaccine injury
victims.

The trial commenced on Monday March 6, 2006 before Madam Justice Mary Ann
Sanderson of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto and is expected
to continue for 4 or 5 weeks.



For further information: contact the law firm of Richard E. Anka, Brans
Lehun Baldwin LLP, 120 Adelaide St. West, Suite 2401, M5H 1T1,
phone (416) 601-1030, fax (416) 601-0655, email: reanka@blbcdnlaw.com; or
contact VRAN-Vaccination Risk Awareness Network: info@vran.org -

(250) 355-2525

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