Posted on 06/15/2009 4:06:15 PM PDT by SecAmndmt
Julia a three year old US citizen has just won substantial compensation in the US Federal Court for autism caused by MMR vaccine – says her mother.
What is different about this case? They kept the “autism” word out of the case. Many parents in other US cases have been advised to do this:-
CBS News has found that since 1988, the vaccine court has awarded money judgments, often in the millions of dollars, to thirteen hundred and twenty two families whose children suffered brain damage from vaccines. In many … cases, the government paid out awards following a judicial finding that vaccine injury lead to the child’s autism spectrum disorder. In each of these cases, the plaintiffs’ attorneys made the same tactical decision made by Bailey Bank’s lawyer, electing to opt out of the highly charged Omnibus Autism Proceedings and argue their autism cases in the regular vaccine court. In many other successful cases, attorneys elected to steer clear of the hot button autism issue altogether and seek recovery instead for the underlying brain damage that caused their client’s autism.”: [Vaccine Court: Autism Debate Continues - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and David Kirby Huffington Post 24 Feb 2009]
Julia’s Mom emphasises Julia has no formal diagnosis of autism and says:-
after Julia’s last neuro appointment when her dr said she had signs of autism. I didn’t want that “word” in her records until Julia’s case was decided.
Julia’s diagnosis was “Encephalitis (inflammation of her brain) most likely attributed to the MMR-V (measles, mumps, reubella, chicken pox) vaccine she had received nine days previously.
I do not want this to be misunderstood. She was never formally diagnosed. Do I think that there is a link between vaccines and Autism, absolutely. Is Julia Autistic? I’m not sure.“
[See our related story: Japanese Data Show Vaccines Cause Autism]
However, there is good research to show ASD is a condition resulting from an encephalopathy (a degenerative disease of the brain). Encephalopathies are normally caused by an infection (90% of the time), and most often we will expect a viral infection. MMR contains three live viruses. [See also Explaining Vaccines Autism & Mitochondrial Dysfunction/Disorder]
If this is what compensation means for Julia’s Mom think of all the families and children who should never have got sick in the first place and will never get compensation just because they used the “autism” word. Julia’s Mom says she was:
accepting the loss of the world as i knew it before she got sick, before my divorce, before i lost my house.
This is such a huge, huge, huge help for Julia and my family”
Does it help to think your child is “just a little bit” autistic but still injured and in need of financial help with medical care for life? Autism Spectrum Conditions are a spectrum from very mild to incapacitating.
Not only does it not end like this for other families – some children die as this 2005 Federal Court decision in a case very similar to Julia’s shows [and which took 9 years to achieve a decision]:-
Eric Fernandez Cusati v Secretary for Health and Human Services
How many cases are like these ones? Who knows the exact number – the majority of decisions are never published – kept in secret. And then there are all the cases the US Secretary of Health and Human Services settles – also kept in secret. No one publicly knows for sure how many.
Thanks to Julia’s Mom for telling us all about this one case.
And with 1 in 38 British boys with an autistic condition [and the problem is not just autism] the question must be asked – how many children who would otherwise have grown up healthy are going to continue to be sacrificed and claimed to be for the very few but in reality for drug company profits in their move to a new business model based on “vaccines for all”. [Autism Rates Rocket – 1 in 38 British Boys – Cambridge Study ]
Today it is your kid. Tomorrow it is you.
Seriously.
You DON'T say!
Why do you think it is that we even have a vaccine court?
To handle the mad scramble to the courthouse by folks trying to cash in on bad science.
“And one more thing: many parents of children with autism diagnoses have enough misplaced guilt about their childrens’ conditions without ignorant people like you trying to foist more guilt upon them with your stupid and uninformed claims that just so happen to be based on nonexistent evidence.”
The parents’ guilt is misplaced. On the issue of vaccines, parents trust their pediatricians, the vaccine manufacturers, and the medical industrial complex. That trust was and is misplaced.
Ultimately, those who promote vaccines, deny their toxicity, and encourage parents to vaccinate without first researching the (very grave) risks are guilty.
I suppose I should refrain from stating the obvious about the catastrophe known as socialist government schools (pagan academies) as well. After all, parents whose children have suffered from a lack of education, socialist indoctrination, moral relativism, drug use, gang violence not to mention STD’s might feel guilty about sending their children into public skeweling.
“based on nonexistent evidence”
Show me one double blind placebo (no vaccine) controlled short or long term study on vaccines.
“You DON’T say!”
I’m also not a nutritionist, yet I am a proponent of healthy eating and exercise. Maybe I should just take advice from “people” like you.
“...trying to cash in on bad science.”
Your last statement puts you on the side of noted scientist (/s) (and congressman) Henry Waxman.
Those who wish the research the real science supporting the facts of vaccine injury should read what Dr. Boyd Haley (Prof. Chemistry at U of Ky) and retired neurologist Dr. Russell Blaylock have to say about the matter.
http://www.chem.uky.edu/research/haley/
http://www.whale.to/a/blaylock.html
“So once they are all used, new cases of autism should drop to zero?”
No, because mercury is only one toxic component of vaccines.
The aluminum adjuvant may be even worse than the mercury.
Except from this link below:
http://www.whale.to/a/blaylock.html
“...
The neurotoxicity of aluminium
Despite what was discussed in the aluminum meeting and the scientific literature on the neurotoxicity of aluminum, Dr. Johnson makes the following remark; “Aluminum salts have a very wide margin of safety. Aluminum and mercury are often simultaneously administered to infants, both at the same site and at different sites.” Also on page 20, he states, “However, we also learned that there is absolutely no data, including animal data, about the potential for synergy, additively or antagonism, all of which can occur in binary metal mixtures...”
It is important her to appreciate a frequently used deception by those who are trying to defend an indefensible practice. They use the very same language just quoted, that is, that there is no data to show, etc, etc. They intend it to convey the idea that the issue has been looked at and studied thoroughly and no toxicity was found. In truth, it means that no one has looked at this possibility and there have been no studies that would give us an answer one way or the other.
In fact, we know that aluminum is a significant neurotoxin and that it shares many common mechanisms with mercury as a neurotoxin. For example, they are both toxic to neuronal neurotubules, interfere with antioxidant enzymes, poison DNA repair enzymes, interfere with mitochondrial energy production, block the glutamate reuptake proteins (GLT-1 and GLAST), bind to DNA, and interfere with neuronal membrane function. Toxins that share toxic mechanisms are almost always additive and frequently synergistic in their toxicity. So, Dr. Johnson’s statement is sheer nonsense.
A significant number of studies have shown that both of these metals play a significant role in all of the neurodegenerative disorders. It is also important to remember, both of these metals accumulate in the brain and spinal cord. This makes them accumulative toxins and therefore much more dangerous than rapidly excreted toxins.
To jump ahead, on page 23 Dr, Tom Sinks, Associate Director for Science at the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC and the Acting Division Director for Division of Birth Defects, Developmental Disabilities and Health, ask, “I wonder is there a particular health outcome that is related to aluminum salts that may have anything that we are looking at today?” Dr. Martin Meyers, Acting Director of the National Vaccine Program Office, answers, “No, I don’t believe there are any particular health concerns that was raised.” This is after an aluminum conference held the previous year that did indeed find significant health concerns and an extensive scientific literature showing aluminum to be of great concern. ...”
“So once they are all used”
Why would a profession (MD) which claims to be concerned with the health and wellbeing of its patients continue to use up thimerosal-laced vaccines when it is acknowledged that they are a health risk?
No,
LOL!
You're the one claiming that doctors are still using 8 year old vaccines today. Any proof?
“Toddsterpatriot”
LOL!
“You’re the one claiming that doctors are still using 8 year old vaccines today. Any proof?”
“Toddsterpatriot”
LOL!
“I’m talking about evidence supporting your argument that vaccines “cause” autism.”
I don’t need to prove that vaccines cause autism. There is ample research demonstrating the neurotoxicity of vaccine components such as aluminum and mercury.
The onus is on the medical profession, the government, the vaccine manufacturers and the drug companies to demonstrate the safety of vaccines, just as it is the responsibility of the drug companies and the FDA to ensure that drugs are safe.
“your uninformed, raw emotionalism.”
This from someone who told me that I shouldn’t say bad things about vaccines and autism because it might make parents of autistic children feel guilty.
You poor girl.
Sad. So many children will end up permanently damaged or dead because a anti-science loons won’t vaccinate, and are determined to drag the herd down with them.
If it wasn't for the hilarious smacking around these loons get...
Why do you think it is that we even have a vaccine court?
Of all the idiotic logic!
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