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Recommendation: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now

What?Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:09:25 -0500

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Kirby: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset of

autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a

vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims. The unprecedented concession

was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff's identifyIt was

obtained through individuals unrelated to the case The claim, one of 4,900

autism cases currently pending in Federal " Vaccine Court, " was conceded by US

Assistant Attorney General Keisler and other Justice Department officials,

on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the " defendant " in all

Vaccine Court cases. The child's claim against the government -- that

mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism -- was supposed to be

one of three " test cases " for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under

consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices

in Federal Claims Court Keisler wrote that medical personnel at the HHS Division

of Vaccine Injury Compensation (DVIC) had reviewed the case and " concluded that

compensation is appropriate. " The doctors conceded that the child was healthy

and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, when she received

vaccinations against nine different diseases all at once (two contained

thimerosal) ... Read the rest at HuffingtonPost.com

© 2007 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC

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Recommendation: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now

What?Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:09:25 -0500

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>lsa5885@... has just sent you a piece from HuffingtonPost.com

> Kirby: Government Concedes Vaccine-Autism Case in Federal Court - Now

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>Link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-kirby/government-concedes-vacci_b_88323.html

>After years of insisting there is no evidence to link vaccines with the onset

of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the US government has quietly conceded a

vaccine-autism case in the Court of Federal Claims. The unprecedented concession

was filed on November 9, and sealed to protect the plaintiff's identifyIt was

obtained through individuals unrelated to the case The claim, one of 4,900

autism cases currently pending in Federal " Vaccine Court, " was conceded by US

Assistant Attorney General Keisler and other Justice Department officials,

on behalf of the Department of Health and Human Services, the " defendant " in all

Vaccine Court cases. The child's claim against the government -- that

mercury-containing vaccines were the cause of her autism -- was supposed to be

one of three " test cases " for the thimerosal-autism theory currently under

consideration by a three-member panel of Special Masters, the presiding justices

in Federal Claims Court Keisler wrote that medical personnel at the HHS Division

of Vaccine Injury Compensation (DVIC) had reviewed the case and " concluded that

compensation is appropriate. " The doctors conceded that the child was healthy

and developing normally until her 18-month well-baby visit, when she received

vaccinations against nine different diseases all at once (two contained

thimerosal) ... Read the rest at HuffingtonPost.com

>© 2007 HuffingtonPost.com, LLC

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