law journal: Evidence of Autism in Many Vaccine Injury Cases

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*/Analysis Finds Evidence of Autism in Many Vaccine Injury Cases/*

By Laurie Udesky on May 10, 2011

http://www.fairwarning.org/2011/05/analysis-finds-evidence-of-autism-in-many-vac\

cine-injury-cases/

For years, government health officials and most other medical

authorities have dismissed the idea that autism might be linked to

childhood vaccines. And the special court set up by Congress to

compensate people hurt by vaccines has denied thousands of claims over

the past decade by parents who have contended that their children

developed autism because of their inoculations.

But a new report in a New York law school journal, the Pace

Environmental Law Review, could reignite the often-inflammatory debate

over the issue. Based on a sampling of cases in which plaintiffs won

settlements or awards in vaccine court, the authors found that many of

the victims demonstrated evidence of autism -- even though, perhaps as a

legal tactic, their lawsuits emphasized other injuries.

Of the 170 cases the report's authors examined, 32, or 19 percent,

provided documented evidence of autism or autism-like symptoms. The

evidence in some cases included findings by the court...

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