Family win $1.5 million in autism-vaccine payout

This is frustrating because this child does not have autism. She has a neurological disorder, that is not autism. Plus this is old news. It has been known for a years.

Additionally, we actually don't know how rare Poling's mito problem is. She did not have a traditional genetic mitochondrial disorder, she had an acquired mitochondrial dysfunction.

The tiny amount of research done on this suggests that between 7 and 20 percent of those with autism have this mito dysfunction, and one CDC conference call to discuss the Poling case estimate that up to 1 in 50 children, 2% of the population, may have the same biomarkers for the mito dysfunction that Hannah had. Not rare at all.

But the problem is, children are never screened for this mito problem before being vaccinated, and Hannah and the other children found to have her biomarkers showed zero symptoms of having it before being vaccinated.

So we have no idea how many Hannah Polings are out there. And the government has admitted that they don't keep track.

@Ginger Taylor: 1 in 50? Sure, like no one would notice that. Those 'evil' drug companies are convering it up, huh? The poor girl had a tragically bad condition. Let her get her compensation without inflicting polio, whooping cough, etc. on the rest of the population. I wonder if there is a vaccine for vaccine paranoia?

I submitted this comment previously to Kristy about her misconception about Hannah Polings diagnosis. Resubmitting. Hannah Poling has full syndrome autism.

She was the subject of a journal article: Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism

Journal of Child Neurology / Volume 21, Number 2, February 2006

Here father has spoken at half a dozen conferences, including a speech at the Maine CDC Autism conference, video available online.

Hannah has autism.

Finally, afer years of denial, physicians and vaccine companies will think twice about giving young children massive doses of multiple antigens simultaneously.

While causality is impossible to prove, the practice of giving massive doses of vacinnes to children under two years old started at the same time that the incidence of autism increased by 10,000-fold. What else changed in the environment at this time to explain the increase?

BF said: "... at the same time that the incidence of autism increased by 10,000-fold"

Except actual autism DIDN'T increase 10,000-fold. There is serious debate whether it has increased AT ALL. It is diagnosed more, just as Lyme Disease is diagnosed more now than it was 50 years ago. For that matter, "mitochondrial disorders" were never diagnosed 30 years ago. Did that mean they didn't exist? Of course not.

The rise in autism diagnosis is driven by a rise in awareness, changes to what constitutes "autism spectrum disorders", reduced stigma with autism as a diagnosis, increased surveillance, diagnostic substitution, and better testing methologies. Studies that apply today's diagnostic standards to populations of adults find about the same rate of autism as we find in children. In other words, there may be NO autism epidemic at all - just a better awareness of how frequent it is and has always been. There MAY be a rise in actual prevalence of autism, but if there is, it is TINY. Declaring a "10,000-fold increase" is simply not honest. And since we're talking about our children, it should be important to (1) get the facts right and (2) be honest.

Ginger wrote: "She was the subject of a journal article: Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism... Hannah has autism."

Um, Ginger - that journal article was written BY HANNAH'S FATHER. Now, Ginger - is it even remotely possible that he had just the slightest motive to portray her condition as "autism"? Would we be discussing Hannah's case now if he hadn't used the "a-word"?

Hannah has some symptoms that look like autism, and has several that don't (like seizures, growth decline, and mild hypotonia).

Parents seeking an explanation and a cure for "normal" autism are probably not that interested in Hannah's case, because what she has is not what their children have.

So I'm sorry - the situation is not as cut & dry as your statements imply.

Ginger wrote: "She was the subject of a journal article: Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child With Autism... Hannah has autism."

Um, Ginger - that journal article was written BY HANNAH'S FATHER. Now, Ginger - is it even remotely possible that he had just the slightest motive to portray her condition as "autism"? Would we be discussing Hannah's case now if he hadn't used the "a-word"?

Hannah has some symptoms that look like autism, and has several that don't (like seizures, growth decline, and mild hypotonia).

Parents seeking an explanation and a cure for "normal" autism are probably not that interested in Hannah's case, because what she has is not what their children have.

So I'm sorry - the situation is not as cut & dry as your statements imply.

wow won't the anti-vaccinators have a feeding frenzy with this one.....sigh.

I just posted on my blog Looking at Lyme Disease a video from the Whittemore Peterson Institute for neutoimmune diseases, in which a child with autism responds well to treatments.

Also in the links on my blog right hand column there is a link to Lyme Induced Autism Foundation. Dr Bransfield ( and other doctors) has found that many children he treats with Autism also have Lyme Disease and respond well to appropriate treatments.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!! Hope there are many to follow !!!

great news for the parents who have their children with austim, if you cannot explain how children got up autism, and when you don´t know why it does appear, it is so hard to accept that vaccines do that??? do you know what mercury is in terms of toxicity??? aluminum????? I bet my house if any doctor drink it up what they injected in children...no one dares, they quiet right, in not to do that.
There are 2 ways of getting immunization, one has millions of years, the other has 50 years. the asthma, diabitis type 1 and 2, abesity, allergies of manykind, including food, ADD...all these problems were unknown back in the 50....but that´s normal i guess, our standards of living have improved since then but somehow we just can´t know how do we got to a stage were 1 in 67 kids do have austim, besides the other problems i´ve just said.

If a family decides not to have their children vaccinated then the only ones they could ever infect with the diseases we normally vaccinate for would be others that decided not to be vaccinated. Ones choice not to be vaccinated would not affect another who had been vaccinated. The choice to be vaccinated should not be the governments but the Individual's and their Doctor's. I see no sense in requiring a nurse (or any other medical professional) with 20 years experience to have a vaccination against their will.

@ jack thompson

Actually, vaccines do not reduce the chance to get sick to zero. It greatly reduces the chance but you can still get sick. Not getting vaccinated when you can get vaccinated is a great disservice to those who cannot get vaccinated because of allergies or something similer. There is little harm in vaccinations so why not do it.

In Polin et al.'s paper, did he disclose that the "19-month old girl" was his daughter? Sounds like a conflict of interest!.. Just wait for the massive rise (not in "autism") in lawsuits the antivaccine nuts will throw at the idiotic) Federal Government, The Feds ignored the findings of its OWN CDC scientists! no wonder the former head of the CDC left to go to work at big pharma (any room for me??).