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DESCRIPTION: For years, some children have had severe reactions to
vaccines, including brain damage and death. The diphtheria, tetanus, and
pertussis vaccine (DTP), first sold as a combined product in the 1940's, is
given to millions of children in the U.S. every year. Reports of seizure,
paralysis, and death from the vaccine first appeared during the decade of its
introduction, but it was not until the 1980's that studies began to show that
tragic adverse effects were not just one in a million. Vaccine cases also
involve adverse reactions to polio, MMR, rubella, OPV, and HiB vaccines. These
reactions may be due to medical negligence, inadequate product warnings, or
defective batches of the product.
Recently, The group has added mercury content of vaccines as one of its concerns. A bacteriocide, thimerosal, containing organic mercury at levels known to be toxic to infants, was used in multi-dose packages of many maternal, infant and early childhood vaccines on a rapidly increasing basis in the 1990's. Recently, the entire industry quietly switched to singled dose packaging and mercury is no longer used in childhood vaccines in this country. Long range studies on the scope of toxic effects on the 20-30,000,000 children exposed to toxic injections of organic mercury are only now just getting underway. Litigation over this heavy metal iatrogenic disaster will last many years. The litigation group will help to coordinate and communicate among the many different law firms pursuing both individual damage actions and class actions all over the US and Canada and will help lawyers whose clients have injury claims pending in the Vaccine Compensation Program in the Federal Claims Court |
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