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CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST PURVEYORS OF RITALIN FILED in 2000 dismissed by 2002.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritalin_class_action_lawsuits for more details.

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Original article:  See also Autism: Its Causes, Contributors, and Maximizing the Chance for Recovery

Lawsuit Filed for Mercury in Vaccines Causing Autism

An announcement was made today by the law firm of Waters & Kraus, the firm that filed the first known lawsuit alleging that a mercury preservative in children's vaccines caused neurological damage to an infant ultimately diagnosed with autism.

Waters & Kraus is leading a consortium of ten firms in as many states that are actively prosecuting cases of this nature (firms listed below).

Andy Waters, the lead attorney in the cases, announced that his firm is now in possession of a previously unreleased confidential report authored by Centers for Disease Control scientists which studied autism as a potential neurological injury caused by mercury in children's vaccines.

A different version of the report was made public and has been cited by the recent Institute of Medicine study as inconclusive on the issue of whether the mercury-based vaccine preservative known as thimerosal has contributed to cause a nationwide epidemic of regressive autism and other neurological disorders in small children.

The confidential version of the study, however, clearly demonstrated that an exposure to more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury within the first three months of life significantly increased a child's risk of developing autism. Specifically, the study found a 2.48 times increased risk of autism - that is to say, children with the exposure were more than twice as likely to develop autism as children not exposed.

In the United States, courts of law have generally held that a relative increased risk of 2.0 or higher is sufficient to substantiate that a given exposure causes disease. As but one example, in the case of Cook v. United States, 545 F.Supp.306, at 308 (Northern District - California 1982) the Court stated that, "in a vaccine case, a relative risk greater than 2.0 establishes that there is a greater than 50% chance that the injury was caused by the vaccine.”

Waters indicated that, in many of the cases his firm has evaluated, including the case filed in a Texas state court on behalf of the Counter family, the affected child received more than 62.5 micrograms of mercury through pediatric vaccines in the first three months of life.

The confidential report, which was obtained by the SAFEMINDS support and advocacy group, states: "As for the exposure evaluated at 3 months of age, we found increasing risks of 'neurological developmental disorders' with increasing cumulative exposure to Thimerosal ... within the group of 'developmental disorders'... for the sub-group called 'specific delays,' and within this subgroup for the specific disorder 'developmental speech disorder,' and for 'autism,' 'stuttering' and 'attention deficit disorder.'“

Waters called the report's contents and the fact that it was kept from the public as "shocking, but unfortunately not surprising, given the political influence of pharmaceutical companies and the tremendous liability they face if they are forced to compensate thousands of families for the costs of care that these children require.”

Waters added that "no amount of money can give these children back the potential that they were born with, and no amount of money will comfort the parents that watched helplessly as their children literally just slipped away.”

The purpose of the lawsuits his firm is currently prosecuting, said Waters, is "to bring to the surface the truth on this issue, a truth that government agencies seem unwilling to admit, perhaps for fear that parents will stop vaccinating their children, and to force the companies that profited from this disastrous mistake to shoulder the responsibility that so many families now bear on their own, often without even the aid of health insurance benefits.”

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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT: If you know someone who may have suffered a vaccine injury, please have them place a call to either Melissa Miles at (214)357-6244 for media inquiries, or Victoria Gibson at (800)226-9880 for client inquiries. They may also call the firms listed below for more information about class action lawsuits against the vaccine manufacturers.

It seems that one of the most effective strategies for ending this nightmare of autism caused by mercury and vaccines will be through legal actions. The drug companies need to be held responsible for selling products that may be causing damage.

The vaccine litigation wars are just beginning in the US. Numerous contaminated vaccine suits against manufacturers are already in progress in the UK.

If you are not yet aware of the connection between autism, mercury and vaccines, please read Dr. O'Shea's excellent review below.

By age two, American children have received 237 micrograms of mercury through vaccines alone, which far exceeds current EPA "safe" levels of .1 mcg/kg. per day. That's one-tenth of a microgram, not one microgram.

Not all vaccines have mercury. It is put in as a preservative in the multi-use vials. So if, for whatever reason, you chose to give you child an immunization, please ask the doctor for the SINGLE use vial.

I would suggest watching him or the nurse actually drawing it up out of the vial and then actually asking for the vial to confirm that it is the single dose vial.

It is this mercury, and other vaccine side effects, that have contributed to the enormous rise in autism that has been experienced, not only in the US, but all over the world.

  • Day of birth: hepatitis B-12 mcg mercury: 30 x safe level 

  • At 4 months: DTaP and HiB on same day - 50 mcg mercury: 60 x safe level 

  • At 6 months: Hep B, Polio - 62.5 mcg mercury: 78 x safe level 

  • At 15 months the child receives another 50 mcg: 41 x safe level -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

References: Other firms working with Waters & Kraus to prosecute individual cases involving thimerosal exposure are: ANDERSON & KRIEGER, APLC 40925 County Center Drive, Suite 210 Temecula, California 92591 Telephone: 909-296-5090 DOGAN & WILKINSON 726 Delmas Avenue Pascagoula, Mississippi 39567 Telephone: 228-762-2272 DORAN & MURPHY, LLP 1234 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, New York 14209 Telephone: 716-884-2000 EVERT & WEATHERSBY, L.L.C. 3405 Piedmont Road, Suite 225 Atlanta, Georgia 30305-1764 Telephone : 404-233-8718 HENDRICKSON & LONG 214 Capital Street P.O. Box 11070 Charleston, W. VA 25339 Telephone: 304-346-5500 JONES, MARTIN, PARRIS, & TESSENER LAW OFFICES, PLLC 410 Glenwood Ave., Suite 200 Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 Telephone: 919-821-0005 LEACH, SCHWARZ & STRASSBERG 11 Bala Ave. Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania 19004 Telephone: 610-668-7964 MARTZELL & BICKFORD 338 Lafayette Street New Orleans, Louisianna 70130 Telephone: 504-581-9065 WISE & JULIAN, PC 3555 College Avenue Alton, Illinois 62002 Telephone: 618-462-2600  

 

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