DAMAGE

If a serious vaccine adverse reaction occurs and you decide to sue the drug company, their lawyers will tell you in court that you were adequately warned in the package insert of adverse reactions. Historically when the jurors saw a child with vaccine damage, they always sided with the victim. The vaccine makers were losing every time. The vaccine manufacturers found the burden of liability so great that they sought and obtained relief from the U.S. government. In 1986 our government stepped in and decided to disallow direct lawsuits to the pharmaceutical company and created VAERS: Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting  System and the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. They in effect, assume the liability of the drug manufacturers.

 When parents elect to vaccinate their children, a portion of the money spent on the vaccination goes into a congressional fund to compensate them if their child is hurt or killed by the shot. If your child becomes sick and visits a doctor or hospital during the four weeks after immunization, this is to be reported to the doctor, where the vaccine was given. Doctors are then required to report vaccine damage to VAERS. It is estimated that less than ten percent do. Remember, “It’s not vaccine damage,” it’s something else.   Even so, with only ten percent reporting, 12,000 to 14,000 reports of adverse events are made annually. By August 31, 1997, more than 802 million dollars had already been paid. Awards for death cases are capped at $250,000 plus attorneys’ fees or costs. This does not include private settlements. With VAERS, the manufactures and doctors have virtually no liability for adverse events that may occur. Examples of lawsuits. I checked my son's vaccines lots to see if any other kids had had reactions and this is what I found. Vaccine record

The Soldiers

 Dr. Dean Black, author of Immunizations: Compulsion or Choice, points out that government discussions of vaccine risks are recorded in the Congressional Record, in a text concerning compensation to families of children who have been harmed by the procedure. Black tells us that Congressman Henry Waxman, who chaired the hearing, is quoted as saying, “A properly manufactured vaccine that has been properly administered can cause a terrible adverse reaction, an admitted scientific fact. The children who will be victims rather than beneficiaries cannot be predicted.” The Congressional Record goes on to justify mass immunization practices by comparing children to soldiers at war who must at times sacrifice themselves for their country: As a nation we require that all children be immunized so that most children will be healthy. Today, the subcommittee will begin to consider what society owes to those who are hurt, to children injured in the line of public health.

The International Association of Biological Standards is the association which sets the expected risk vs. benefit ratio that should allow vaccines to be used. What is this standard? How beneficial must it be, relative to a risk, to be able to be used?