Family to Receive $1.5M+ in First-Ever Vaccine-Autism Court Award

The author of this article omitted what the extenuating circumstances of this case (Hannah's pre-existing genetic disorder), quite possibly because the author is an anti-vaccination advocate.  Hannah Poling, whose father is a physician, has spoken publicly about Hannah's rare genetic mitochondrial disorder and every reliable web site that has reported on the case prominently mention that Hannah does indeed have a mitochondrial disorder.  What the public is not privy to is which specific disorder Hannah has. (There are hundreds of congenital mitochondrial disorders.) Through very reliable genetic research, it has been reported that most of these disorders are associated with encephalopathy, and are first diagnosed after a child has a seizure.  Other common symptoms of these genetic disorders are developmental disorders and autistic-like behavior and the symptoms occur at the same rate whether or not the child receives immunizations. One could wonder if Hannah had any illnesses before starting her childhood immunizations that caused a fever-induced seizure, that this case would never even been contemplated, no less settled.This case does not prove that vaccinations caused Hannah's disability, but the two hundred research studies done in the United States, Europe and Japan prove that there is absolutely no thimerisol (vaccine preservative)-vaccine antigen-autism link.I have great empathy for parents who have a child with a genetic disorder because I had a very disabled son with a rare genetic disorder who died aged 28.  My only desire is for people to put their resources into real research about autism and give their time and money to organizations that fund research into the causes and treatment modalities for their youngster.