Vaccine and Autism link in court!!!…Not!!!…

March 17, 2008

U.S. courts have ruled in favor of a family that suspects the child’s symptoms were caused by a vaccine the child received.  All of this is true.  However, what the press wants you to think is that this is a concession by the United States that there is a link between autism and vaccines.  This is false.

First of all, the child was found to have autism-like symptoms, she was never diagnosed with autism.  She also had a rare genetic, mitochondrial deficiency.  Her symptoms were linked to the vaccine because, according to a time-line of symptoms, the vaccine may have exacerbated or exemplified her already underlying disease.  This led to her to have autism-like symptoms.  However, more than 5,000 people are now about to sue the government, claiming that vaccines caused their child’s autism.

The funny thing is, this “test case” was settled.  If the lawyers of this case thought they had a class-action lawsuit in the wake with this case, they never would have settled.  They would have forced a court ruling, in hopes to make a case for the other thousands of people. 

The government has set up this fund to reward people who actually get injured by vaccines.  They have done this to protect you, because for all those people who hate for their children to get vaccines, they know that if the vaccine causes harm to their child, they will be compensated.  However, rarely does the vaccine cause harm, in this case, it was not proved to be the cause, it just was possible, and therefore the case was settled.  In no way has there been a link to vaccines and autism.  Sorry.