At the top of the page, you will see the words “Hot Topics”. The last one to the right is “Hannah Poling”. You can find a lot more information there that is more recent than March 10th.

Can you tell us the amount of this “Huge Lawsuit”?

For the bulk of your post, you are just copying and pasting from other (old) news sources, without attribution.

Why should we take the time to respond?

http://www.aapsonline.org/newsoftheday/0021

Oh, and these parents are DOCTORS

Vaccine compensation fund to pay award to autistic girl; broad implications feared
March 10th, 2008

Although an attorney representing the federal government said that it “has not conceded that vaccines cause autism,” Associated Press headlines read that “officials concede vaccines’ link to illness like autism” (AP 3/6/08). Petitioner Hannah Joling, now 9 years old, received 5 vaccines at once in 2000. According to a document that AP obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, this aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder, causing metabolic dysfunction manifesting as worsened brain function with features of autistic spectrum disorder.

The document drew no conclusions as to the role of thimerosal. The government has previously denied any link at all between vaccine components and autism.

A Portuguese study suggested that 7% of autistic children might have a mitochondrial disorder, compared to 0.02% in the whole population.

Stories are conflicting about the time of onset of Hannah’s symptoms. Some state that she had suggestive symptoms at age 3 months; others that she was developing normally until the vaccines were given at 19 months. Her father Jon Poling, M.D., Ph.D., a neurologist, and mother, who is a lawyer and nurse, contend that the vaccines were also responsible for their daughter’s mitochondrial disorder (Kent Heckenlively, Age of Autism 3/5/08).

The family has filed a request with the court to unseal the documents on the case. A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice, which represents the government in all cases, refused to grant interviews or to explain to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution why it isn’t releasing the records (Alison Young, Atlanta Journal-Constitution 3/6/08).

The 5,000 families seeking compensation for autism or other developmental disorders they blame on vaccines are encouraged by the decision, the first of its type. However, each case needs to be proved on its own merits, and the decision is so narrowly worded that it may not be a helpful precedent.

Whatever the cause, the number of children receiving Supplemental Social Security Income (SSI) for disability has more than tripled in 20 years. In 1960, only 1.8% of U.S. children or adolescents were said by their parents to have a limitation of activity due to a health condition of more than 3 months’ duration; this rate had increased to more than 7% by 2004. Conditions include obesity, asthma (which has doubled since the 1980s), and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, affecting some 6% of schoolchildren).

Potential causative factors, according to JAMA, include maternal smoking (although its prevalence has decreased), poverty (which is stable), and “fast foods.” The only suggested role for the large increase in the number of vaccines is that less or less normal stimulation of the immune system, owing to less exposure to viral infections in early childhood, could cause greater susceptibility to allergens (JM Perrin, et al., JAMA 6/27/07).

There is also a significant increase in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus in children, at least partly attributed to obesity (RB Lipton, JAMA 6/26/07). Some wonder whether this too could have a link to vaccines. Hemophilus immunization has been associated with autoantibodies to islet cells. A Danish study recently showed an attributable risk of 2.3/100 (2.3%) of type 1 diabetes from hemophilus immunization in siblings of insulin-dependent diabetic children (JB Classen, Open Ped Med J 2/25/08).

Establishing the role of vaccines in any chronic, disabling condition could open floodgates of demand for compensation. And this single case of compensation for autism is making public health officials and pediatricians worry that parents will skip vaccinations.

A CDC panel voted unanimously to recommend influenza vaccine annually for all school-age children (WorldNetDaily 2/28/08). New Jersey officials have told parents that their babies can’t attend day care without their flu shot. Most influenza vaccine contains thimerosal.

Two other vaccine-court cases testing the alleged connection between thimerosal and autism go to trial in May.

Here’s part of it:

Matthew and Joe both had regular check-ups at Guy’s hospital and also took part each year in annual children’s games for transplant patients. The boys and their mothers became friends.

Although both boys enjoyed good health, there was one special threat to their health. They were both more vulnerable to infections because of the immunosuppressive drugs they took to stop their bodies rejecting their new kidneys.

There was a further complication. The boys could not be vaccinated with the MMR jab because of the drugs they were taking. This would not have been of too much concern provided the “herd immunity” was high — in other words as long as most other children were vaccinated. That would stop diseases getting a foothold in the first place, keeping the risk of infection minimal.

But as vaccination rates began to slip after the publication of Wakefield’s research and the subsequent flurry of sensational headlines, the risk to both boys increased. In Southwark, the borough where Joe lives, the take-up rates of MMR dropped to among the lowest in Britain.

Measles, though, was still an unknown risk to most parents, just as it was for Lorraine when Joe fell ill.

“He had a temperature, a slight rash and chest problems,” she recalled. “We took him to hospital but no one knew what was wrong.”

At first he seemed to recover, but over the next few weeks he grew worse. “He got up one day and and couldn’t walk on his left side,” said Lorraine. “I took him to hospital and when we got there he went down like a sack of spuds.”

Their community members and neighbors who chose not to vaccinate for measles also chose to expose these vulnerable boys to a disease that could kill them.

Little children wouldn’t be allowed to go around blowing puffs of neurotoxic chemicals into the face of other children (and in some places parents are forbidden by law from smoking in the presence of children in a car), why should those same kids be encouraged to spread viruses that cause neurotoxic damage not just to other kids and babies but to adults, too?

Information from:
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pu.....full-g.pdf

Then other information here:
http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/c...../160/3/302 … which says “Approximately 1 in 1000 children with clinical measles develops encephalitis. Although most children with encephalitis recover without sequelae, approximately 15% die and 25% of survivors develop complications such as MR. We assumed that approximately 1 in 5000 cases of measles leads to Mental Retardation.”

Now I did provide a document comparing the studies on the effect of the MMR, but you do not seem to want to look at. Still it is up to you to prove your point with equivalent data, not anecdotes. Thank you.

How do the antigens in eight vaccines compare to the daily onslaught the human body goes through just be existing in the world?

Then you say “The mothers I have worked with have had second children, not gotten them vaccinated with the MMR and NONE of the second children (many boys) have devoloped Autism… just a thought.”

The plural of anecdote is not data. What REAL evidence do you have that the 1971 approved MMR which never contained thimerosal is a cause of neurological damage? I see you did not look at the paper I referenced to, perhaps then you should read this news article on the effect of measles, and tell me why those boys deserved going blind from measles, that actual disease:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....055533.ece

Oh, and don’t give me that “healthy kids aren’t hurt by the measles” line, because of a mother of a child with health issues including a very severe heart condition I find that statement to be cruel and heartless.

Chances are high that a second child will also have Autism. The mothers I have worked with have had second children, not gotten them vaccinated with the MMR and NONE of the second children (many boys) have devoloped Autism… just a thought.

Now please tell us exactly what real evidence there is that the DTaP has anything to do with autism, and is actually worse than diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis. Here is some more reading about:
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=186

You see a child speak, answer you with a look, and within 2 weeks after the vaccination series – they just LOSE it. Im pretty darn sure there is a connection here! I trust my instinct… not AGAINST vaccinations, but very against putting something in a child who may have a comprimised immune system (not just a high fever, but sniffles too) and too many viruses (dead or not) being put into my child’s body.