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Vaccine Autoimmune Project for Research and Education (VAP)
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Click here for VAP's coverage of Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services below Click here to read Let Justice Be Done by F. Edward Yazbak, MD, FAAP
June 10, 2007
Theresa Cedillo is a dear friend to everyone at VAP, and her daughter, Michelle, has suffered greatly from adverse reactions to vaccines. Her story is not just a "case", it's unbelievably heart-wrenching. With the permission of the Cedillo's, VAP will provide updates of the trial beginning June 11 by posting daily transcripts and, if available, audio. Dr. Yazbak will include commentaries. http://www.vaproject.org/vaccinetrials/us.htm The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) is a federal program that was passed by US congress in 1986 to compensate families for injuries and death as a direct result of vaccinations. The program "shielded" vaccine-makers so they would not go bankrupt as a result of being sued for vaccine-injuries. It also enabled vaccine manufacturers to add countless inadequately tested vaccines to the child vaccination schedule. Patients pay a 75 cent excise tax for each vaccine and that adds $200 million to the compensation fund each year. The pharmaceutical companies do not have to pay for the vaccine injuries they cause. Tax payers do. Our children, Jonny and Sierra are also in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) and their cases will be heard by the Federal Vaccine Court. Both developed Autism and immediate life-threatening damages and long-term illnesses as a direct result of their vaccinations. Jonny and Sierra's story - published May 8,
2007 For countless families, these years have been unimaginable as they've waited for their children’s stories to be heard. The near 5,000 cases are just a mere fraction of children who experience serious adverse vaccine reactions. Most do not get accepted into the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program because there is just a small window of opportunity due to the very limiting restrictions for filing. For those who make it into the National VICP, the federal court can never grant true justice or fair compensation to the children who have been harmed by vaccinations. All vaccine-injured children are left to needlessly suffer. Families are left with the outrageous bills, system discriminations, and pain. As a result too many children go without the care they require and many are eventually institutionalized. VAP Co-Founder and Director, Ray Gallup shares
his son's story It costs $3.2 million to take care of an autistic person over his or her lifetime. Caring for all people with autism over their lifetimes costs an estimated $35 billion. 1 in 150 children has autism, a figure the CDC estimated several years ago but only recently published. 1 in 6 children suffer from a developmental disorder. Ray Gallup has been tracking the Autism
statistics for the community since 1998: Words cannot begin to describe this nightmare and the ruthless harm countless children have endured across the globe. As more vaccines have been added to the vaccine schedule, more and more children suffer form serious injuries, illnesses, and death. All childhood disease of enormous proportions is rapidly on the rise. This outbreak coincides with the increases in the mass-vaccination schedule. VAP extends it heart and support to the Cedillo's. We hope that everyone will share their prayers with this family.
Thank you,
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