Court Finds That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism

By David Fierce
20:25, February 15th 2009
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Court Finds That Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism

A special court ruling that there is no connection between autism and some specific childhood vaccines stuck to the same opinion on Thursday. According to the CNN, the mother of a 6-year-old boy who has autism was very satisfied at hearing the court’s decision, saying that she had felt relieved knowing that her son’s disease had nothing to do with vaccines.

Amanda Guyton now hopes that the doctors will pass to a real research in order to help the children who have autism. On the other hand, John Best, father of a 12-year-old boy with autism, believes that the whole situation “stinks.” Their kids weren’t involved in the study, but Guyton and Best had watched every piece of news connected to this issue.

Yet, the Cedillos, the Hazlehursts and the Snyders families asked for damage rewards from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for their kids who have autism. These parents strongly believe that the condition of their children is tightly linked to the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella, which had been mixed with other vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.

But the families couldn’t prove that they were right. The panel of special matters got to the conclusion that they hadn’t offered enough evidence as to prove that the vaccines they had done to their children caused them autism. Even if a lot of autism parents stuck to the fact that the vaccines approved by the government caused the disease, the health agencies didn’t submit to such little evidence.

The Institute of Medicine offered some proof about the lack of connection between and two and cited five important studies which have failed to prove the existence of any connection between autism and thimerosal and other 14 studies which denied the connection between the MMR vaccine and autism.

 "Hopefully, the determination by the Special Masters will help reassure parents that vaccines do not cause autism,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement released on Thursday.
 



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