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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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  1. Nothing in any of this is going to change any of our recommendations ... Our message to parents is that immunization is lifesaving.
    SOURCE: The Washington Post 20 months ago
  2. It wasn't like a switch being turned off. It was more like a dimmer switch being turned down
    SOURCE: The Washington Post 20 months ago
  3. Suddenly my daughter was no longer there
    SOURCE: The Washington Post 20 months ago
  4. Years ago, actually, I had a case, before we understood or knew the implications of autism, that the vaccine injured the child's brain caused an encephalopathy
    SOURCE: Associated Press 20 months ago
  5. Our message to parents is that immunization is lifesaving ... There's nothing changed.
    SOURCE: The Seattle Times 20 months ago
  6. The government has made absolutely no statement indicating that vaccines are a cause of autism.
    SOURCE: NPR 20 months ago
  7. That would not be a good outcome.
    SOURCE: NPR 20 months ago
  8. It wasn't like a switch being turned off. It was more like a dimmer switch being turned down
    SOURCE: Associated Press 20 months ago
  9. Following vaccination, that illness produced stress leading to permanent brain injury as manifested by autism and seizures
    SOURCE: ABC4.com (KTVX) 20 months ago
  10. The government has made absolutely no statement about indicating that vaccines are the cause of autism, as this would be a complete mischaracterization of any of the science that we have at our disposal today ... I think we need to set the record straight on that.
    Julie Gerberding Julie Gerberding SOURCE: ABC News 20 months ago

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