Month: October 2019

In 1986, Congress passed the NATIONAL CHILDHOOD VACCINE INJURY ACT, severely limiting liability for vaccine manufacturers, and ultimately removing the 7th Amendment rights of Americans to sue the industry when vaccines caused harm.

The Act set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to compensate those cases, and families were required to apply to the “VICP” before suing vaccine makers. Even though the program has paid out more than $4 billion in claims, most cases of vaccine injury are never filed, as few families are informed of the program, and only a fraction of filed cases are paid. Thus, the cost of vaccine injury falls on the states, local municipalities and the families themselves.

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I have two sons, born in 2000 and 2002, and vaccinated them roughly according the the recommended schedule. My second son suffered what we now recognize as an adverse vaccine reaction to his first dose of the Hep B vaccine, but it was not recognized as such by either myself or his pediatricians at the time, so he continued to be vaccinated according to the CDC recommended schedule. Following his 18 month appointment, he suffered a severe neurological regression, displayed symptoms of GI distress, showed signs of an autoimmune condition, and was diagnosed with autism six months later.

His was a text book case of vaccine induced encephalopathy, per the Health and Human Services (HHS), Human Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Vaccine Injury Table established by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), displaying symptoms including:

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