The family stories are remarkably, painfully, similar.
They begin begin with toddlers developing well, and happily. Then they are taken to the doctor’s office for routine vaccines which, in the early 1990s, often were bundled together.
An extraordinary tribunal assembled by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims is set to consider, for the first time in a judicial proceeding, whether the combination of certain vaccines and thimerosal, a mercury-based vaccine preservative, can cause autism -- a group of disorders that affects as many as one in 150 children born in the U.S. The government has long denied such a link exists. The test case could shake -- or bolster -- public confidence in the vaccine system and impact autism litigation worldwide.
June 05, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
The family stories are remarkably, painfully, similar.
They begin begin with toddlers developing well, and happily. Then they are taken to the doctor’s office for routine vaccines which, in the early 1990s, often were bundled together.
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