Source: Huffington Post
Will parents win their case against the government in Vaccine Court by convincing three federal judges that there’s enough evidence to support a link between the MMR vaccine, thimerosal and autism spectrum disorders?

I, for one, am not placing any bets. But several thimerosal defenders are now dispatching dire warnings about the looming decline of the nation’s public health — and the pharmaceutical industry’s corporate health — should any of the 4,800 families win their vaccine/autism case in federal court. “Massive litigation could force companies to leave the vaccine business, threatening the future of one of medicine’s greatest achievements,” Dr. Paul Offit, chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, wrote in the Boston Globe on June 3rd. If the claims are successful, Dr. Offit wrote, they “could exhaust the pool of money currently set aside to compensate children who have been hurt by vaccines,” and would open the floodgates for private litigation directly against the drug companies, threatening their financial viability and compelling them to abandon the vaccine business. [more]