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One Vaccine-Caused Autism Claim to Be Paid
Many parents of children stricken by the first signs of autism soon after receiving routine early childhood vaccines have long suspected that something in those inoculations caused the disorder. Some say it is the mercury-based preservative thimerisol in certain vaccines, while others claim it is an overload of vaccines for combinations of illnesses, like the shot for MMR (measles mumps and rubella). Parents' efforts to prove their cases and gain some financial support for their children have met with little success, however, as the federal government has consistently denied any relationship between childhood vaccinations and autism, and study after study has failed to show a link between them.
The parents of the approximately 5,000 children who developed autism symptoms following vaccination who currently have claims filed with the government seeking compensation were given an unexpected shot of hope in March by the news that the government had agreed to compensate one child for vaccine-related onset of autism symptoms. The federal government is downplaying that case as an anomaly, however, saying the successful claimant developed autism-like symptoms only because she has a rare pre-existing disorder that made her react differently to the vaccine than would most children.
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