Friday, March 14, 2008

A Victory for One Family

The price to pay for a small victory.........

Hannah Poling, left, stands with her parents Terry and Jon Poling, right, at a news conference in Atlanta on March 6, 2008. Government health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in Hannah, and that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund.
What happened to little, red-haired Hannah Poling is hardly unique in the world of autism. She had an uneventful birth; she seemed to be developing normally — smiling, babbling, engaging in imaginative play, speaking about 20 words by 19 months. And then, right after receiving a bunch of vaccines, she fell ill and it all stopped. Hannah, now 9, recovered from her acute illness but she lost her words, her eye contact and, in a matter of months, began exhibiting the repetitive behaviors and social withdrawal that typify autism. "Something happened after the vaccines," says her mom, Terry Poling, who is a registered nurse and an attorney. "She just deteriorated and never came back."

Parents of kids like Hannah have been fingering vaccines — and, in particular, the mercury-based vaccine preservative thimerosal — as a cause of autism for over a decade, but researchers have repeatedly failed to find a link.
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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If only the truth of the actual injuries by vaccines could possibly be known. All the different kinds of damage caused, the deaths...

I am not anti-vaccine. Honestly.

But I grieve for the injuries, the deaths, and the incalculable damage caused to families and lives.

And even more so, I grieve and rage, at the lies, the cover-ups, and the total uncaring politicism of the whole issue.

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