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ATLANTA -- The government has agreed to pay the family of an autistic girl from a federal fund that compensates people injured by vaccines. U.S. officials generally reject the idea that the vaccines cause autism. Full Article at WESH
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SANTA FE, N.M -- New Mexico Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil said it's important for children to be immunized against serious and sometimes fatal diseases, such as whooping cough and measles. He said the benefits of vaccines outweigh any theoretical risk. Full Article at KOAT
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The father of a girl who developed autism-like symptoms after receiving several vaccinations in a single sitting doesn’t oppose vaccines. “I want to make it clear I am not anti-vaccine,” Jon Poling, who has an MD and a PhD, told WebMD. Full Article at Wall Street Journal
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The federal government has agreed to award damages from a special vaccine compensation fund to the family of a girl with symptoms of autism. Full Article at NPR
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Federal health officials restated their belief in the safety of childhood vaccines Thursday, reacting to questions raised by ... Full Article at USA Today
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Nothing in any of this is going to change our recommendations for childhood immunizations
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The government has made absolutely no statement indicating that vaccines are a cause of autism ... This does not represent anything other than a very special situation and a very sad situation for the family and the child.
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In fact, there'd be a real risk, I believe, that diseases that have been controlled in the United States, which used to cause very high morbidity and mortality — and thousands of deaths every year — could once again become common in the United States
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In some ways we've been so successful in eliminating disease that people are resisting vaccines ... If we had polio cases in the community, this issue of vaccines and autism would go away very fast.
SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
