Parents of Child in Vaccine Injury Case to Hold News Conference
March 5, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
A news conference will held tomorrow about the 9 year old child whose “pre-existing mitochondrial disorder…. was ‘aggravated’ by her shots” as conceded last week by the government in the Court of Federal Claims. The lawyer for the girl’s family arranged the news conference, according to WSBTV, which carefully states that her “rare” condition was affected by the shots, and that this led to her having “autism-like symptoms”:
overnment health officials have conceded that childhood vaccines worsened a rare, underlying disorder that ultimately led to autism-like symptoms in a Georgia girl. The officials recommend that she should be paid from a federal vaccine-injury fund.
Medical and legal experts say the narrow wording and circumstances probably make the case an exception — not a precedent for thousands of other pending claims.
But parents and advocates for autistic children see the case as a victory that may help certain others. Although the science on this is very limited, the girl’s disorder may be more common in autistic children than in healthy ones.
A lawyer for the nine-year-old girl has scheduled a news conference in Atlanta tomorrow. Her parents have declined to comment in the meantime because the case is not final and the payment amount has not been set.
Kev at Left Brain/Right Brain has more to say about the “concession report” and what is getting said about it, and by whom.
I’m curious to see how the media will exploit this… According to Age of Autism, the family will be interviewed by Larry King tomorrow as well. I thought they weren’t suppose to comment until the case was final?
It’s going to be at the Atlanta Federal Courthouse. I thought the same—-this is getting out of hand!
I’m amazed how much this has been overreacted to. Wait, I’m not, but I should be. But since I have seen reactions to rather obscure little bits of information, one that, on the broadest of looks, seems to be generally important will be reacted to far more heavily. I wish I was truly amazed, though I suspect that far more could have happened before I would be.
Ah, well.
Cliff
What has been particularly galling me is the difference between what the headlines say “Vaccines may have hurt Ga. girl.”
And I who thought the autism newsforums would finally be free of discussions about vaccines for once!
This thing is probably going to make people hold on to it even longer, especially if the details of this isn’t published.
Just want to say having a child with sutism, “I hope we have EVEN more discussion as it will be the parents of these children that bring the truth about lots of autism cases to light”.
To those who want to hear les, than do not listen, but we will not stop!