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Wakefield Upheld: Italian Court Gives Case to Family of MMR-Vaccine Injured Child

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It seems the “fraudulent” findings of Dr. Andrew Wakefield’s work are being proven once again in a court of law to solidify the very real connection between autism and vaccines. An Italian court has ruled that Valentino Bocca’s autism symptoms were in fact linked to the MMR injection he received when he was 15 months old.

The child was vaccinated in March of 2004. After returning home, there were immediate adverse symptoms noticeable by the parents. Over the next year, regression was evident, and the autism diagnosis was given. The child is now 100% disabled by the disease.

Previous court cases which used similar research findings

This isn’t the first time a court has ruled in favor of parents of a child with autistic health symptoms who was given the the MMR vaccine. In September of 2010, the Poling family was awarded 1.5 million for life care in a case where the investigation revealed that prior to July 2000, Hannah Poling was a “normal” child at the age of 18 months, but after receiving vaccines to immunize her against 9 different diseases – measles, mumps, rubella, polio, varicella, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and Haemophilus influenzae.

Shortly after, Hannah began exhibiting the following symptoms: screaming fits, developed high fevers, stopped eating, failed to respond when spoken to, and other symptoms of autism. Her parents filed a claim in federal vaccine court, and more than 2 years lapsed before both sides came to a settlement about the compensation amount for Hannah’s injuries.

In August of 2010, the Fletcher family in Britain was compensated £90,000 for their son Robert who experienced severe brain damage after receiving the MMR vaccine as an infant, and 18 years of legal battles.  He is unable to stand or feed himself, and speaks minimally.

Another case in 2009 awarded a family $810K+ when it ruled that acute brain damage was caused by an MMR vaccine given to a child. Here are the court case papers.

“But”, you may ask, “Why haven’t I seen anything about this in the mainstream news media?

Mainstream news outlets have shown their clear and unrelenting support for mainstream medicine, which has flagrantly criticized and derailed brave doctors like Andrew Wakefield and his colleagues. In 2010, a British Journalist named Brian Deer made it his mission to be a major instrument which would bring Dr. Wakefield down, and he was successful.

“But”, you may ask, “Didn’t Dr. Wakefield make money after his reputation was soiled?”

There are always those who will point the finger at Dr. Wakefield and say that he’s made money on his book Callous Disregard, or that he’s becoming a millionaire from all the press he’s gotten (interviews, publications, etc.) because of the “fraudulent studies” he produced. And those people believe that study is somehow harmful to children.

Everyone is entitled to make a living, it’s what’s done with that living that counts.

Here are some important questions: exactly how are Dr. Wakefield’s findings, his interviews, or his book harming children? Because parents wanted answers and weren’t getting to the bottom of why their children were sick? Because he produced findings showing an outcome about something people didn’t want to hear? Because his findings are the same as what’s now being revealed at Wake University Medical School, and also previously replicated in study after study after study?

In his book, Dr. Wakefield talks about how since 1991, the U.S. Vaccine Court and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been settling cases of vaccine-related issues (autism) who exhibit neurological and developmental issues. These cases usually don’t make the news, and you can’t read about them in general media outlets.

In 2008, CBS News reported that these entities had in fact settled these cases out of court, and their public statements continued to be that no connection existed between the incidence of autism and the vaccines they were recommending.

I want to understand how these facts somehow make Dr. Wakefield a bad, incompetent doctor. The real answer is, they don’t.  But it does show how a massive cover up on the behalf of journalists being paid off by special interests of the pharmaceutical companies takes place.

Why doesn’t Brian Deer look into the reasons why so many parents bring their children to the doctor with complaints of many different types of symptoms that match up with autism and related disorders? Why isn’t there a thorough investigation being done about the thousands upon thousands of children who are vaccine-injured?

There is a database containing this information called VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System), and the cases listed are just what’s been reported. Why isn’t there a massive outcry of injustice and fraud to these journalists and these entities, who are clearly covering up important information the public should know?

So even despite reports that these entities were settling cases of vaccine-injured children out-of court, according to the CDC’s vaccine information page:

“Gaps in the scientific knowledge of rare vaccine side effects prompted the CDC to develop the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD) project in 1990. This project involves partnerships with eight large managed care organizations (MCOs) to monitor vaccine safety.”

Why do systems like the Vaccine Safety Datalink exist if vaccines are safe?

In 1986, the CDC also established the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program: 

“Individuals and their families can qualify for compensation in three ways. One is to show that an injury found on the Vaccine Injury Table occurred in the appropriate time interval following immunization. The other two ways to qualify include proving that the vaccine caused the condition or demonstrating that the vaccine worsened or aggravated a pre-existing condition.”

and the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act:

“The topic of vaccine safety became prominent during the mid 1970s with increases in lawsuits filed on behalf of those presumably injured by the diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT) vaccine. [4] Legal decisions were made and damages awarded despite the lack of scientific evidence to support vaccine injury claims.”

If all of these cases were truly lacking in real scientific evidence to support vaccine injury claims, why bother having these systems in place? And why do courts continue to rule in favor of the vaccine-injured children?

Another important question: Why are there no real, third party studies or research showing the efficacy and safety of vaccines? The vested interest studies conducted by the vaccine manufacturers should not be considered sufficient, which is what are currently used in defense of the vaccines pharmaceutical companies manufacture and sell.

An even more important question iswhy are there so many reports of children having tell-tale symptoms after receiving these vaccines? 

Misrepresentation on the other side

Remember, everyone has to make a living…it’s what you do with that living that counts.

What about the income Brian Deer received from efforts to destroy Dr. Wakefield’s livelihood and career while protecting large, corrupt, corporations who never seem to have real answers for the vaccines they produce…and which continue to harm children?

In March of 2012, Brian Deer was found to have misrepresented the facts about findings of Dr. Wakefield’s research. The high court in the U.K. found that Professor John Walker-Smith, a co-author of the same document prepared by Dr. Wakefield detailing findings of the connection between bowel disorder and the MMR vaccine, was found innocent of all charges brought against him alleged by the GMC (General Medical Council in Britain).

Judge Mitting reported that the GMC, “on the basis of sensible instructions, does not invite me to remit it to a fresh Fitness to Practice panel for redetermination. The end result is that the finding of serious professional misconduct and the sanction of erasure are both quashed.”

In a post I wrote in 2010, I discussed why the statements made by Brian Deer were false. I also listed out a series of other valid studies done before Wakefield’s work, showing similar findings.  Fraudulent findings cannot be replicated over and over again. It’s just not possible.

What about this article by J.B. Handley discussing reasons why Brian Deer’s professional character should be called into question – such as the fact that Brian Deer made the statement that he worked for the Sunday times since the 1980s, when the The Sunday Times refutes this in print, claiming that he is not a member of their staff.

Dr. Wakefield’s reputation

It would stand to reason that if Professor John Walker-Smith’s name was cleared, Dr. Wakefield’s would be also, correct? However, if he were exonerated, the results for pharmaceutical companies would be disastrous. Consumers would know once and for all that the MMR vaccine is problematic and that there is a clear connection between bowel disorder and the vaccine, and that autism is not a made-up health issue which does involve pathologies in the gut that are introduced by an outside source such as a vaccine.

These facts are the very things that the pharmaceutical industry, government, and media have collectively spent much time, effort, and money working to cancel out and eliminate as truth to the public.

This document shows new evidence which would condemn the BMJ’s retraction of Dr. Wakefield’s research, showing a study from Professor John Walker-Smith:

“New documents have come to light confirming our report of intestinal disease and autistic regression following MMR vaccine published in the medical journal The Lancet in 1998, The documents prove that there was no fraud. They describe 7 of The Lancet children, and were written by Professor John Walker-Smith in December 1996, 14 months before our team’s paper was published.

Professor John Walker-Smith prepared the documents as a report for a scientific meeting based upon his own assessment of the children’s disorder, supported by the study’s senior pathologist Dr. Dhillon. I was not involved in these assessments (see Level 4, Walker-Smith’s sworn testimony). I am accused of altering the findings to report disease where none existed and deceiving my colleagues in the process.

It has also been revealed that Dr. Godlee, the responsible editor at the British Medical Journal that published the allegations, did not adequately check these facts – facts that were referred to in both my book, Callous Disregard: Autism and Vaccines – The Truth Behind a Tragedy, published by Skyhorse Publishing in May 2010, and my complaint
about Brian Deer to the UK’s Press Complaints Commission.”

One of the most glaring errors the media, mainstream medical authorities, and other critics of Dr. Wakefield have made is a lack of acknowledgement of many other bodies of research confirming his findings.  Repeatedly, researchers are finding a clear link between inflammation in the digestive tract and autism, as well as the connection between the MMR vaccine with bowel disease.  Autism is caused by bowel disease.  In these cases, the bowel disease is exacerbated to the point by the vaccine that children experience full-blown autism.

The media and mainstream medical community continue to dispel this occurrence, and so its importance is reduced to nothing in the eyes of the world-wide health community. 

From The Daily Mail discussing an ongoing study being conducted by Wake Forest University:

” … a team from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina are examining 275 children with regressive autism and bowel disease – and of the 82 tested so far, 70 prove positive for the measles virus … the team’s leader, Dr Stephen Walker, said: ‘Of the handful of results we have in so far, all are vaccine strain and none are wild measles.

This research proves that in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, there is evidence of measles virus. What it means is that the study done earlier by Dr Wakefield and published in 1998 is correct.

That study didn’t draw any conclusions about specifically what it means to find measles virus in the gut, but the implication is it may be coming from the MMR vaccine. If that’s the case, and this live virus is residing in the gastrointestinal tract of some children, and then they have GI inflammation and other problems, it may be related to the MMR.”

The second paragraph is very telling: in the gastrointestinal tract of a number of children who have been diagnosed with regressive autism, who are shown to be experiencing GI inflammation and other problems which may be related to the MMR, there is evidence of measles virus being present (vaccine strain).

Although there are many factors which come into play in the development of autism including environmental factors, diet, health of the parents before conception, none of these kids were healthy before they received their vaccines. If they were, autism would not have become a full-blown issue. In my mind, that is clear evidence of the causation between the MMR and autism.

Coincidence? You be the judge.

More information:

Summary of MMR vaccines and damages

Industry studies showing the MMR vaccine doesn’t cause autism

Why Medical Authorities Went to Such Extremes to Silence Dr. Wakefield (interview with Dr. Mercola)

Autism Fraud? Researcher a Victim of Yellow Journalism

Charlie’s Story: From A Mother’s Heart

Why Vaccines are Scientific Fraud 

Vaccine Risk Awareness Network

Dr. Wakefield Interview with Dr. Mercola, Part I of 10

VaxTruth: Meet The Children

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6 replies on “Wakefield Upheld: Italian Court Gives Case to Family of MMR-Vaccine Injured Child”

Wow. Thank you for posting this awesome article. Dr. Wakefield has been crucified in the US press, which will pay no attention to the fact that his research was exonerated by this case, and others. It is a crime against humanity that so many innocent children have had their lives ruined by being injected with a deadly poison.

Yet the vaccine industry and their corrupt tools in state legislatures have gutted the vaccine exemption in the state of Washington, and are threatening to the same in California. All while they loudly proclaim that vaccines are “safe”.

Thank you for having the courage and wisdom to spread the truth.

Thank you so much for your comments Stanley, I appreciate your support on this issue. I hope everyone will share this far and wide, it needs so desperately to be heard.

One thing everyone seems to forget is that Wakefield did not even perform a “study” per se, but simply a case study of 12 children. Case studies appear every month in medical journals and are routinely ignored….except when they deal with the holy grail of vaccines. (http://newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri127.htm) The obvious and unscientific bias of the media only confirms my decision not to vaccinate my children even more strongly. Thanks for the great article.

Yes, this was just a case study, and it’s gotten more attention than would have ever been expected. It’s funny how this one little case study got so many people upset, and that this could turn into a smear job…this, which should have been a wake-up call for parents and consumers. Why people are so quick to defend vaccine companies is beyond me, when their children’s lives are at stake. And Dr. Wakefield never made the claim that vaccines cause autism. He said multiple doses of MMR might be connected to bowel disease, should be given in single doses, and that it warranted further study. But people like Brian Deer completely lied about what Wakefield said, and turned it into a media circus to bring him down. If people do their own research, they can see that vaccines are dangerous and are not as safe and effective as the pharmaceutical companies would have everyone believe.

I had the MMR pushed on me at the hospital where I delivered my first child at age 30. I was very healthy. Two months after vaccination I became violently ill with Ulcerative Colitis. I do believe the MMR brought this misery upon me.

Linda – I also believe vaccines are capable of causing issues such as ulcerative colitis. It’s really no surprise either since there has been found a connection between vaccines such as the MMR and bowel disease in the case study that Wakefield performed as well as many other research cases by reputable scientists and universities which found similar conclusions in their inquiries.

I am so very sorry you had to suffer with a digestive issue like what you’ve had. Have you tried a healing protocol such as GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome, the book) by Dr. Natasha Campell McBride? I know someone who has this disorder and she has gained a great deal of healing just from eliminating GMO foods from her diet as well as sourcing her foods local and organic.

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