A mother who claims that five of her children developed autism after having their measles, mumps and rubella vaccinations is taking legal action on behalf of three of them. Solicitors for the Robinson family said yesterday that 850 British families had now been granted legal aid. A spokesman for Alexander Harris, joint lead solicitors in the MMR action against the drug companies Aventis Pasteur, Merck and Co, SmithKline Beecham and SmithKline and French Laboratories, said they had about 750 clients. Not all are accepted as clients.
Children have to meet our own criteria for inclusion.
Mrs Robinson said that she was not told about possible risks from the injection. She claimed that she would never have continued having her children immunised. Then they had the MMR injections.