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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. 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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  2. The government has made absolutely no statement indicating that vaccines are a cause of autism.
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  3. 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.
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  4. That would not be a good outcome.
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  5. There's no question this is the biggest challenge to the vaccine compensation system it's ever seen
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  6. For the first time the court has conceded in a case that vaccines can indeed cause autism
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  7. That is a complete mischaracterization of the findings of the case and a complete mischaracterization of any of the science that we have at our disposal today.
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  8. At the same time, his speech wasn't developing as much any longer ... and he kind withdrew from our world and turned into himself.
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  9. Suddenly my daughter was no longer there
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  10. It wasn't like a switch being turned off. It was more like a dimmer switch being turned down
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