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Federal appeals court upholds decision finding no link between vaccines and autism
Posted: August 30th, 2010, 8:15am MSD
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[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit [official website] on Friday affirmed [opinion, PDF] a decision issued last year by the US Court of Federal Claims [official website] finding insufficient evidence [JURIST report] to establish a link between childhood vaccines and autism in three test cases. The decision focused on the case of 15-year-old Michelle Cedillo, who received the MMR vaccine [NIH backgrounder] when she was 15 months old and was subsequently diagnosed with autism and various gastrointestinal disorders. Michelle's parents alleged that Thimerosal [FDA backgrounder], the mercury-based preservative found in Michelle's MMR vaccine, damaged her immune...