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Test Case Linking Vaccines and Autism Reaches Federal Court
The family stories are remarkably, painfully, similar. They 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. A week after the shots, the devastation begins: loss of speech and eye contact, high fever, constant pain, screaming, bowel problems, inability to sleep. The children no longer respond to their names; later, they are diagnosed with autism or related disorders.
'Words alone cannot explain the trauma of watching your only child's health deteriorate to such a degree before your eyes,' Theresa Cedillo of Arizona wrotes in an e-mail to Legal Times, a sister publication of this newsletter. On June 11, the case of Michelle Cedillo, Theresa's daughter, will go before an extraordinary tribunal assembled by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Its goal is to determine, 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 set of disorders that is gaining attention as more and more children are diagnosed; as many as one in 150 children born in the United States. The government has long denied such a link exists.
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