The UK-based GlaxoSmithKline used a “Little Red Riding Hood”-themed ad for its whooping cough vaccine that falsely claimed it could prevent adult carriers from passing the disease children too young to take it themselves, a proposed class-action suit alleges.
Plaintiff Lori DeCostanzo, who claims she made the allegations in a suit filed on Sunday in New York Eastern District Court over the marketing of its Boostrix vaccine for the prevention of whooping cough transmission. The suit was filed by Sipertri & Glimstad on behalf of individuals who claim that they were injected with the Boostrix vaccine based on misleading information. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 2:21-cv-04869, DeCostanzo v. GlaxoSmithKline PLC, et al.
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