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Says Thimerosal Did Not Cause Autism

By Randolph E. Schmid, AP. is.gd/aF3IM

The vaccine additive thimerosal

is not to blame for autism, a special federal court ruled Friday in a

long-running battle by parents convinced

there

is a connection.

While expressing sympathy for the

parents involved in the emotionally charged cases, the court concluded they

had failed to show a connection between the mercury-containing preservative

and autism.

" Such families must cope every day with

tremendous challenges in caring for their autistic children, and all are

deserving of sympathy and admiration, " special master Hastings

Jr. wrote.

But, he added, Congress designed the victim

compensation program only for families whose injuries or deaths can be shown

to be linked to a vaccine and that has not been done in this case.

The ruling came in the so-called vaccine

court, a special branch of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims established to

handle claims of injury from vaccines. It can be appealed in federal court.

The parents presented expert witnesses who

argued mercury can have a variety of effects on the brain, but the ruling

said none of them offered opinions on the cause of autism in the three

specific cases argued. They testified that mercury can affect a number of

biological processes, including abnormal metabolism in children.

Special master K. Vowell noted that in

order to succeed in their action, the parents would have to show " the

exquisitely small amounts of mercury " that reach the brain from vaccines

can produce devastating effects that far larger amounts ... from other

sources do not. The ruling said the parents were arguing that the effects

from mercury in vaccines differ from mercury's known effects on the brain.

Vowell concluded that the parents had failed to establish that their child's

condition was caused or aggravated by mercury from vaccines.

Friday's decision that autism is not caused by

thimerosal alone follows a parallel ruling in 2009 that autism is not caused

by the combination of vaccines with thimerosal and other vaccines.

The cases had been divided into three theories

about a vaccine-autism relationship for the court to consider. The 2009

ruling rejected a theory that thimerasol can cause autism when combined with

the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine. After that, a theory that certain vaccines

alone cause autism was dropped. Friday's decision covers the last of the

three theories, that thimerosal-containing vaccines alone can cause autism.

The ruling doesn't necessarily mean an end to

the dispute, however, with appeals to other courts available.

The new ruling was welcomed by Dr. Offit

of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, who said the autism theory had

" already had its day in science

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