TWENTY-YEAR WAIT: Parents Of Schoolboy Disabled After Botched Vaccination Finally Get Compensation

Andrei Volkov from Perm, Russia poses in undated photo. Vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis made the child disabled. Note: Private photo. (Volkov Family/Newsflash) Andrei Volkov from Perm, Russia poses in undated photo. Vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis made the child disabled. Note: Private photo. (Volkov Family/Newsflash)
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20 July 2023
The parents of a schoolboy who became disabled after being vaccinated at school have been given compensation – some 20 years later. And despite the wait, the amount is barely more than GBP 20,000. The then 13-year-old boy, Andrei Volkov, from the city of Perm in Russia, was given a vaccine...