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Families Of Autistic Children Sue Vaccine Manufacturers.(for thimersol use in vaccines)
2001 SEP 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
Two Massachusetts families are suing several vaccine makers, claiming the companies' use of a controversial preservative caused their children's autism.
In the lawsuit filed in Middlesex Superior Court, the families allege that the children "were poisoned with toxic mercury'' in the preservative thimersol. The Boston Globe reported that the lawsuit is the second of at least 15 being prepared by a team of lawyers from Medford and Portland, Oregon.
"No one can tell you what caused the autism,'' said Michael Chmura, whose four-year-old autistic son is a plaintiff in the case. "But you find out you're injecting poison into your kid's bloodstream, the same poison they tell you not to give them via tuna fish.''
Thimersol is used in a number of childhood vaccines for everything from hepatitis B to diptheria/tetanus. The Food and Drug Administration has long asserted that the vaccines are safe.
"Certainly mercury is not good for you, but at the concentrations that were present in the vaccines, there's ...
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