Yet Another US Vaccines-to-Autism Test Case - The Next Hannah Poling - And Yet

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" Guess what ............. the boy selected to replace Hannah Poling's

" test case " in the US " Vaccine Court " , ........... he has just been

found with ........

yep ........... many of the same " unusual " metabolic markers as Hannah. "

As predicted, Hannah Poling's " rare " condition is not so rare as the

US government want you to think as its embarrassingly early appearance

in what was meant to be just another " mercury-in-vaccines " typical

test case shows.

See Yet Another US Vaccines-to-Autism " Test Case " :-

The Next Hannah Poling - Yet Another Kirby Exclusive - Spectrum

Magazine - 24 April 2008

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From Kirby........

In February, I leaked news of the Federal government's admission that

vaccines had triggered autism in a little girl named Hannah Poling.

The stunning revelation, though still reverberating around the world,

was roundly downplayed by US officials, who insisted that Hannah had

an extremely rare, genetic case of " aggravated " mitochondrial

disorder, with zero bearing on other autism cases.

Dr. Gerberding, Director of the US Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC), rushed to the airwaves, exhorting

parents to adhere to the nation's intensive and virtually mandatory

immunization schedule, and brushing off their legitimate anxieties by

saying: " We've got to set aside this very isolated, unusual situation. "

Well, the days of setting aside are over: Hannah Poling is

neither isolated nor unusual.

In fact, the boy who was selected to replace Hannah Poling as the

first-ever thimerosal " test case " in so-called Vaccine Court, has just

been found with many of the same unusual metabolic markers as… you

guessed it, Hannah Poling.

Hannah's case was scheduled to be heard in Federal Claims Court

on May 12 -- as one of three " test cases " of the theory that

thimerosal (a mercury-based vaccine preservative) can cause autism.

Test cases will help address general causation issues in all

4,900 autism claims now pending in Vaccine Court. But following the

government concession, Hannah was withdrawn as the first test case of

the thimerosal theory, and attorneys scrambled to find a replacement:

a young boy from New York.

Last week, however, the court announced that the replacement

thimerosal test case was also being withdrawn, in order to " proceed to

an individual hearing on a different theory of causation. "

That theory, which applies to Hannah as well, maintains that

children with dysfunctional mitochondria (the little batteries within

each cell that convert food into energy) are susceptible to autistic

regression, triggered by a vaccine-induced overtaxing of the immune

system.

" We want to pursue an additional theory, not a different theory, "

the boy's father told me. " We are by no means abandoning the

thimerosal theory of causation but, in the context of the test case,

the thimerosal theory would have eclipsed our other evidence,

including evidence of metabolic dysfunction, " such as impaired

mitchondria and low cellular energy.

Following the Poling concession, he said, " I saw right away that

we needed to pursue the mitochondrial theory, " but the lead attorneys

did not see it that way. " Perhaps they did not properly understand the

concession, and believed the finding was of a rare, genetically caused

mitochondrial disorder, " as the government contends. " I think they

rightly want to keep clear focus on thimerosal in the test case, and

not muddy the presentation with other theories. "

The court's test case process is unusual and unwieldy. " They

limit the cases to one theory at a time, when the theories are not

mutually exclusive, " the father said. " For example, thimerosal could

cause, contribute to, or aggravate mitochondrial dysfunction. These

cases can't be wrapped into neat little packages. "

The unexpected withdrawal of two test cases in a row – both

because of their apparent mitochondrial underpinnings – is sure to

have larger ramifications in the Court of Federal Claims, as well as

the much larger court of public opinion.

A new, additional theory of causation is about to be introduced

in Vaccine Court: Vaccines can trigger a chain of events in children

with mitochondrial dysfunction that causes autism.

But the US Government now has a major quandary to deal with.

Federal officials already conceded that, far from being " theoretical, "

this chain of events already happened to Hannah Poling. This will make

it difficult, if not impossible, to argue against compensating the boy

from New York, when compensating a nearly identical case – Hannah

Poling – was already deemed appropriate.

Some estimates of mitochondrial dysfunction in children with

autism range as high as 20%-30%. But among the regressive subset of

cases (virtually all of the claims in Vaccine Court) up to half of the

children might show signs of it.

No one knows how many of those families will pursue a similar

strategy of individual hearings on causation, based on the

mitochondrial concession in the Poling case. But my guess is that

there could be hundreds of them, following in the precedent of this

case's footsteps. The legal ramifications, inside Vaccine Court and

throughout the judicial system, remain incalculable at this point.

Still, when the American public finds out that the exceedingly

" rare " Poling case was replaced by what is shaping up to be yet

another exceedingly rare case – they will follow the lead of all three

presidential candidates and finally reject the tired mantra that,

" there is no link " between vaccines and autism.

Then perhaps will end, " One of the most vitriolic debates in

medical history, " as it is called by Dr. Bernadine Healy, former head

of the NIH and the Red Cross. " At some level, " she said, the Poling

case " was a vindication for families, " adding that, " vaccines as a

trigger carry a ring of both historical and biological plausibility. "

The government is currently examining the national vaccine

schedule to see if we are, perhaps, immunizing children too early and

too often (and with too much thimerosal from the flu shot).

I personally thought that one Hannah Poling emerging out of

Vaccine Court would be enough to change the way we vaccinate in this

country. But now we have two. And there are many more Hannah's out

there, waiting to be counted.

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Sheri Nakken, former R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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