The Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid over $2.1 billion for vaccine injury claims since 2006 (with a per case cap of $250,000 for death and pain/suffering), and the flu shot accounts for over 64% of those claims.4 42 U.S.C. § 300aa-15(a). The following is a partial list of reactions disclosed by manufacturers for pediatric flu shots: anaphylactic shock, arthralgia, asthma, bell’s palsy, brachial neuritis, death, facial palsy, facial paresis, febrile convulsions, guillain-barre syndrome, lymphadenopathy, meningitis, myasthenia, myelitis, neuritis, optic neuritis/neuropathy, paralysis, paresthesia, stevens-johnson syndrome (Manufacturer Inserts for Fluzone, FluMist, Fluvirin and Fluarix.)