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    Charles Mohan, CEO of the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation, says he finds the government's concession in the case reasonable. "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." But at the same time, says Mohan, there is no scientific evidence to suggest that vaccines themselves can cause either mitochondrial disorders or autism. Full Article at NPR
    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
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Case Stokes Debate About Autism, Vaccines
  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
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  2. The government has made absolutely no statement indicating that vaccines are a cause of autism.
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  3. That would not be a good outcome.
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  4. There's no question this is the biggest challenge to the vaccine compensation system it's ever seen
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  5. For the first time the court has conceded in a case that vaccines can indeed cause autism
    – John Gilmore SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  6. 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.
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago
  7. At the same time, his speech wasn't developing as much any longer ... and he kind withdrew from our world and turned into himself.
    SOURCE: NPR 21 months ago

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