US to award vaccine damage payment

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US to award vaccine damage payment

US to award vaccine damage payment

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By Judith Duffy, Health Correspondent

Campaigners hail decision as ‘unprecedented’

A DECISION by the US government to award compensation under its vaccine

damage programme to a child diagnosed with symptoms of autism has been

hailed as " unprecedented " by campaigners.

The claim is one of nearly 5000 cases currently pending in the American

vaccine " court " , which allege that mercury-containing vaccines resulted in

autism.

Washington-based attorney Jim Moody, one of the lawyers involved in the

cases, told the Sunday Herald the case was scheduled to go to trial in May,

but " to everyone's surprise " the government conceded liability.

" It is also significant they conceded it was causing autism, they could have

just said vaccines caused injury or been vague, " he said. " Never before has

our government linked vaccines to autism. "

According to court papers, the girl was developing normally during the first

18 months of her life. But the officials agreed to pay compensation after it

was demonstrated that five vaccinations she received on one day

significantly aggravated an underlying type of genetic disorder, leading to

a condition which had " features " of autism.

A press conference is planned for Atlanta tomorrow, where the girl's parents

are expected to talk about the case.

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