Best v Wellcome Foundation & Others

(1994) 5 Med LR 81

SUPREME COURT OF IRELAND

O'Flaherty FINLAY CJ, and Egan JJ

Product liability — DTP vaccine — Causation — Whether vaccine containing pertussis component could cause post-pertussis vaccinal encephalopathy (PPVE) — Whether vaccine did cause PPVE in plaintiff — Whether defendant vaccine manufacturer and/or prescribing doctor negligent — Whether plaintiff had established close temporal association between time of vaccination and onset of symptoms