Guess the number of comments @ NJ.COM on "Autism continues to climb, with NJ rates now the highest"

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17. Please consider reading up on Hannah Poling, VICP (Vaccine Injury Compensation Program) and EBCALA.

As a matter of strict policy, with only very rare exceptions, any claims I post on this subject are backed by objectively solid citations with links included, all from the parents and the professional investigative journalists working with them. Please consider reading up on Hannah Poling (neurologist father and nurse/attorney mother), VICP (Vaccine Injury Compensation Program), and EBCALA (Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy), or don't, your personal choice, obviously. If the NYT devoted a mere 117 words to this story on page A18, none of it must be important or real, eh?

http://www.ebcala.org/areas-of-law/vaccine-law/chairman-issa-postpones-vicp-hearing

...EBCALA is a non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the legal needs of the autism community.

Members of EBCALA’s board published a peer-reviewed law journal article in 2011 finding that the VICP had compensated 83 cases of vaccine-induced brain damage that included autism. Those 83 cases were from a sample size of about 150 compensated cases, or less than 5% of the total number of 3,200 cases that the VICP has compensated since Congress created it in 1986.

This strong association between vaccine injury and autism in the VICP is irrefutable and in the public domain. This association stands in sharp contrast to the VICP’s rulings in the Omnibus Autism Proceeding’s test cases that found no causal relationship between vaccines and autism.

Congress must explore this apparent paradox. How can it be that vaccines cannot cause autism when a substantial number of cases the VICP has compensated over twenty-five years feature autism as a vaccine injury?

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http://www.ebcala.org/unanswered-questions

Unanswered Questions
A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury

Executive Summary: In 1986, Congress created the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (1986 Law). This Program has original jurisdiction for children’s claims of vaccine injury. Because almost all children receive multiple vaccinations for daycare and school, it is critically important that the Program provides fundamental fairness, due process and transparency.

This empirical investigation, published in a peer-reviewed law journal, examines claims that the VICP compensated for vaccine-induced encephalopathy and seizure disorder. The VICP has compensated approximately 2,500 claims of vaccine injury since the inception of the program. This study found 83 cases of acknowledged vaccine-induced brain damage that include autism, a disorder that affects speech, social communication and behavior. In 21 published cases of the Court of Federal Claims, which administers the VICP, the Court stated that the petitioners had autism or described autism unambiguously. In 62 remaining cases, the authors identified settlement agreements where Health and Human Services (HHS) compensated children with vaccine-induced brain damage, who also have autism or an autism spectrum disorder.

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http://digitalcommons.pace.edu/pelr/vol28/iss2/6/

Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury
Mary Holland, NYU School of Law, Louis Conte, Robert Krakow, Lisa Colin

Recommended Citation: Mary Holland, Louis Conte, Robert Krakow, and Lisa Colin, Unanswered Questions from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: A Review of Compensated Cases of Vaccine-Induced Brain Injury, 28 Pace Envtl. L. Rev. 480 (2011)

http://www.scribd.com/doc/115393658/Andrew-Zimmerman

Andrew Zimmerman / Poling v HHS Exhibit 3

Published by Heather Rhodes White

In a second case Zimmerman was called to give his expert report on was Poling v. HHS. He revised his testimony, which was in complete contradiction from Cedillo v. HHS. His report to the Special Masters;

“The cause for regressive encephalopathy in Hannah (Poling) at age 19 months was underlying mitochondrial dysfunction, exacerbated by vaccine-induced fever and immune stimulation that exceeded metabolic energy reserves. This acute expenditure of metabolic reserves led to permanent irreversible brain injury. Thus, if not for this event, Hannah may have led a normal full productive life. Presently, I predict Hannah will have a normal lifespan but with significant lifelong disability."

DISCLAIMER: This does not apply to everyone with an autism diagnosis and certainly not you. I apologize if the discussion creates any distress.