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Parents Speak Out on Vaccine Settlement

Hannah Poling, left, with her father, Jon Poling, right, are seen before the start of a news conference, Thursday, March 6, 2008 in Atlanta. Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in Hannah, and that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund. ( AP Photo/W.A.Harewood)

Hannah Poling, left, with her father, Jon Poling, right, are seen before the start of a news conference, Thursday, March 6, 2008 in Atlanta. Full Article at The Washington Post

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