We may Finally Know why a Flu Vaccine Triggered Narcolepsy

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In an attempt to battle the 2009 swine flu pandemic, two separate pharmaceutical companies developed vaccines for the causative H1N1 strain: Pandemrix, produced by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), and Focetria, created by Novartis. But the former left GSK with their own battle – with its dissemination came a peculiar rise in cases of narcolepsy, a chronic and incurable brain disorder that disrupts sleep-wake cycles.