Posted on 06/15/2009 4:06:15 PM PDT by SecAmndmt
Julia a three year old US citizen has just won substantial compensation in the US Federal Court for autism caused by MMR vaccine – says her mother.
What is different about this case? They kept the “autism” word out of the case. Many parents in other US cases have been advised to do this:-
CBS News has found that since 1988, the vaccine court has awarded money judgments, often in the millions of dollars, to thirteen hundred and twenty two families whose children suffered brain damage from vaccines. In many … cases, the government paid out awards following a judicial finding that vaccine injury lead to the child’s autism spectrum disorder. In each of these cases, the plaintiffs’ attorneys made the same tactical decision made by Bailey Bank’s lawyer, electing to opt out of the highly charged Omnibus Autism Proceedings and argue their autism cases in the regular vaccine court. In many other successful cases, attorneys elected to steer clear of the hot button autism issue altogether and seek recovery instead for the underlying brain damage that caused their client’s autism.”: [Vaccine Court: Autism Debate Continues - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Kirby Huffington Post 24 Feb 2009]
Julia’s Mom emphasises Julia has no formal diagnosis of autism and says:-
after Julia’s last neuro appointment when her dr said she had signs of autism. I didn’t want that “word” in her records until Julia’s case was decided.
Julia’s diagnosis was “Encephalitis (inflammation of her brain) most likely attributed to the MMR-V (measles, mumps, reubella, chicken pox) vaccine she had received nine days previously.
I do not want this to be misunderstood. She was never formally diagnosed. Do I think that there is a link between vaccines and Autism, absolutely. Is Julia Autistic? I’m not sure.“
[See our related story: Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism]
However, there is good research to show ASD is a condition resulting from an encephalopathy (a degenerative disease of the brain). Encephalopathies are normally caused by an infection (90% of the time), and most often we will expect a viral infection. MMR contains three live viruses. [See also Explaining Vaccines Autism & Mitochondrial Dysfunction/Disorder]
If this is what compensation means for Julia’s Mom think of all the families and children who should never have got sick in the first place and will never get compensation just because they used the “autism” word. Julia’s Mom says she was:
accepting the loss of the world as i knew it before she got sick, before my divorce, before i lost my house.
This is such a huge, huge, huge help for Julia and my family”
Does it help to think your child is “just a little bit” autistic but still injured and in need of financial help with medical care for life? Autism Spectrum Conditions are a spectrum from very mild to incapacitating.
Not only does it not end like this for other families – some children die as this 2005 Federal Court decision in a case very similar to Julia’s shows [and which took 9 years to achieve a decision]:-
Eric Fernandez Cusati v Secretary for Health and Human Services
How many cases are like these ones? Who knows the exact number – the majority of decisions are never published – kept in secret. And then there are all the cases the US Secretary of Health and Human Services settles – also kept in secret. No one publicly knows for sure how many.
Thanks to Julia’s Mom for telling us all about this one case.
And with 1 in 38 British boys with an autistic condition [and the problem is not just autism] the question must be asked – how many children who would otherwise have grown up healthy are going to continue to be sacrificed and claimed to be for the very few but in reality for drug company profits in their move to a new business model based on “vaccines for all”. [Autism Rates Rocket – 1 in 38 British Boys – Cambridge Study ]
Today it is your kid. Tomorrow it is you.
So sad that juries dole out money in cases like this based on no science at all. No wonder medical care is so expensive.
Polio isn’t deadly?
Your posts are ignorant. You seem to know very little of medicine particularly or science in general.
Have you ever met an autistic child?
Can you believe the absolute, blindered, pig-ignorant stupidity this thread represents?
I hadn’t heard of “refrigerator mothers.” You made your points very successfully, and I thank you for posting it.
“Thimerosal is no longer used as of 2001 correct?”
Existing stocks of thimerosal containing vaccines prior to the ban are still in use.
The multi-use vials of flu vaccine still contain mercury.
Your posts are not quite as accurate as “all autistic children are born during the waxing gibbous phase of the moon.”
“Garbage.”
What is between your ears, other than dust and stale air.
Your posts are garbage. You seem to know little of science or 20th-century knowledge.
Your behavior on this thread is reprehensible.
I do not have a medical background but I am a parent.
Regardless of my humble (graduate level) education, thankfully the vaccine court had sufficient expertise to make their finding.
Why do you think it is that we even have a vaccine court?
Children have irregular eeg’s for weeks after the measles...I think.
“Additionally, it was discovered that Wakefield stood to gain financially if the MMR vaccine was outlawed or if it’s image was damaged.”
MD’s do not profit by debunking the sacred cows of modern medicine. They lose their licenses.
If you want to talk about financial gain, let’s consider Dr. Paul Offit. As a co-holder of the patent for a rotavirus vaccine, do you think there would be a conflict of interest if he sat on a board which recommended or approved vaccines (include his own) for the childhood vaccine schedule?
“absolute, blindered, pig-ignorant stupidity”
Which manifested itself once you showed up.
So once they are all used, new cases of autism should drop to zero?
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