A third vaccine court case!

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August 18, 2008, 1:24 PM

Vaccine Watch: A Third Vaccine Court Case

Posted by Sharyl Attkisson

(AP / CBS)

With thousands of autism cases pending in federal vaccine court, and

numerous test case decisions coming this fall, some are looking to

see what-- if anything-- can be learned from prior court decisions.

While most vaccines are well-tolerated by most children, side effects

do rarely occur and victims are entitled to compensation in this

special vaccine court. Previous blogs have discussed the case of

Hannah Poling: a thimerosal (mercury) vaccine case the government

conceded last fall (the mercury exposure in childhood vaccinations

has been greatly reduced in recent years due to safety concerns); and

a 1986 case in which the court determined vaccinations aggravated a

pre-existing condition called " TS " in a child, resulting in his

mental retardation and autism.

Now, CBS News has obtained details of a third case of vaccine injury

in a child born in 1974. It may be one of the first cases in which

the government compensated a child who became mentally retarded and

developed autistic behavior after a vaccine injury. In this case,

unlike the two others we've looked at, the child did not have a known

pre-existing condition. What does this tell us that's relevant to the

current debate over vaccines and autism/ADD? Medical experts are

likely to differ on that front. Another " anomoly " ? Early evidence of

a possible vaccine/autism link that the government hasn't publicly

discussed? Did the child have a pre-existing susceptibility to

vaccines that simply went undiscovered? No matter the interpretation,

the case proves the vaccine/autism debate has been going for at least

two decades.

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