Allison v. Merck and Co., Inc.

*766OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

The trial court entered summary judgment against appellant Jo Ann Allison and her son Thomas, who are suing the Merck pharmaceutical company (“Merck”) and the Clark County Health District (“Health District”) because they claim that a Merck-manufactured measles, mumps and rubella vaccine (the MMR II) administered by the Health District caused then seventeen-month-old Thomas to contract encephalitis and to suffer from consequent blindness, deafness, mental retardation and spastic contractures.1 We conclude that Merck may be liable to Thomas Allison by reason of…