Children's Health Defense By
A teen who developed vaccine-induced narcolepsy after taking the Gardasil human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine won a major victory this month when the federal “Vaccine Court” ruled he is entitled to compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
Trey Cobb received a third dose of Merck’s Gardasil vaccine in August 2015, when he was 14 years old. Soon after, he began experiencing autoimmune symptoms, including severe fatigue and difficulty carrying on normal activities.
Now 22, Cobb still experiences a multitude of symptoms that likely will never go away.
Expert testimony showed Cobb developed autoimmune narcolepsy induced by processes called “molecular mimicry” and “cross-reactivity.”
Infectious virus-like particles from the Gardasil vaccine mimicked the body’s natural amino acid sequences and confused the immune system into attacking the body’s own cell receptor sites, affecting wakefulness and sleep…
