Analysis: Vaccine payment no landmark (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Fri, 03/07/2008 - 8:11am

Hannah Poling, left, stands with her parents Terry and Jon Poling, right, at a news conference in Atlanta, Thursday March 6, 2008.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />( AP Photo/ W.A.Harewood)AP - For those convinced that vaccines can cause autism, the sad case of a Georgia girl, daughter of a doctor and lawyer, seems like clear-cut evidence.

The government has agreed to pay the girl's family for injury caused by vaccines.



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