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Case Stokes Debate About Autism, Vaccines

Terry and Jon Poling at a news conference in Atlanta Thursday.

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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  1. It could have been the vaccine that exacerbated that particular underlying mitochondrial disease ... or in a lot of cases it's the onset of a virus, an infection, a flu, that might have the same impact.
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  2. 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
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  3. For the first time the court has conceded in a case that vaccines can indeed cause autism
    – John Gilmore SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  4. This was not a court decision
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