Today's NYT-Deal in an Autism Case Fuels Debate on Vaccine

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Deal in an Autism Case Fuels Debate on Vaccine

By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: March 8, 2008

WASHINGTON — Study after study has failed to show any link between

vaccines and autism, but many parents of autistic children remain

unconvinced. For the skeptics, the case of 9-year-old Hannah Poling

shows that they have been right along.

The government has conceded that vaccines may have hurt Hannah, and

it has agreed to pay her family for her care. Advocates say the

settlement — reached last fall in a federal compensation court for

people injured by vaccines, but disclosed only in recent days — is a

long-overdue government recognition that vaccinations can cause

autism.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/08/us/08vaccine.html?ref=health