Autism. Rimini District Court: "The fault of the vaccine." The ministry ordered to pay compensation.
Now, it seemed an old theory denigrated, the court instead of Rimini argued that a vaccine can make a child autistic.
This judgment No. 2010/148, part No. 2010/0474, journal.n ° 2012/886, gave the appeal lodged by parents against the Department of Health, who demanded the payment of compensation for irreversible complications caused by a vaccine.
The vaccine is MMR. According to parents, in fact, symptoms of autism in their son did appear after inoculation.
And really the same day, as read in the judgment. Return to the clinic in Riccione, March 26, 2004, the child began to show troubling symptoms (diarrhea and nervousness) and then between 2004 and 2005 occurred signs of severe psychological distress to physical recognition, 7 August 2007, the total and permanent disability to 100%.
That it was told the vaccination, the specialist Niglio had already stated in June 2008 and the confirmation came a year later by the specialist Montanari. The link, in the judgment is "established." Up to condemn the Ministry of Health to pay compensation.
The judgment has caused "great confusion" between the experts of the Scientific Council of the immunization schedule for Life, which brings together people with high ranks of Hygiene and Public Health, General Practice, the Regional Pediatric Hospital- university umbrella and the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (ITIS), the Italian Federation of General Practice Doctors (Fimmg), the Italian Federation of Paediatricians Doctors (FIMP) and the Italian Society of Pediatrics (Sip).
The judgment, according to these experts, must be "of course" based "on what has been published 14 years ago, in the Lancet, and successively removed for non-obvious foundation of what was originally proposed by group of British researchers. "
The leading medical journal Lancet actually formally withdrew the study on possible links between autism and MMR. The article, published in 1998 and written by British physician Andrew Wakefield, was due to a long dispute over scientific nearly 12 years. Wakefield claimed that the vaccine was the cause of intestinal infections, both associated with Kanner syndrome. His claims were discredited by the scientific world, and were the basis of the most important disputes in the history of medicine:
"Unfortunately - says the Scientific Council - false theories proposed have led to a sharp drop in vaccinations in the United States, Britain and other European countries, with the result, in many cases, an increase sudden cases of measles and its complications, including several cases of encephalitis and death. "
"Different points of work in 1998 Wakerfield are incorrect," said in a press release the same journal, dealing with the 1998 publication, say the experts ITIS, the Fimmg, the FIMP and Sip in a note, adding that "a disciplinary committee of the British Committee of General Practice (General Medical Council), after careful study, told how Wakerfield presented his research in a" dishonest and irresponsible "and" ignored with insensitivity "the suffering of children covered by the study. In the Scientific Committee's report can be read also that Wakefield has "ruined the reputation" of the medical profession. The same Wakefield was expelled from the College of Physicians and can no longer practice medicine. If net verdicts and serious that leave little doubt. "
The Scientific Council recalls the contrary that "the results of two scientific studies published recently in one of the most credible medical journals worldwide, the British Medical Journal (January 5, 2011 a BMJ 2011 342: c5347, and the other published January 11, 2011 BMJ 2011 342: c5258) have reported the failure of the association and foundation, among others, that patients were recruited from the anti-vaccination activists, and that the study was commissioned and funded in a purpose characterized by ideological prejudices and economic interests. "
"Too often unproven and scientifically established, the only relationship between the concomitant administration of a vaccine and an adverse event or disease due to unknown causes is considered sufficient in itself to consider that the cause comes from vaccination," Council commented, that "before taking actions that directly or indirectly have a negative meaning to the whole community by taking a risk of illness for children and adults with negative reflex to join the national prevention program, which is called upon to judge - former Commission laws 210/92 - assuming the greatest scientific rigor and above all sustainability claims, judgments based on the universally recognized achievements. "
"Also unusual - the note continues ITIS experts, Fimmg, FIMP and Sip - the fact that the city can ignore the judgment and reasons for the actions of national and international scientific community which, inter alia, the right / duty to protect all work solely in order to practice with the guarantees necessary forensic. Yet such a judgment issued just might have the only result the loss of confidence in our fundamental instrument of prevention to the health of children and the entire population, with consequent re-emergence of serious illness and even death, like measles, and thinking also to parents of children afflicted with serious illness such as autism have found the reason for so much suffering. And these parents certainly do not deserve more lies about the status of their child. "
Finally, to prevent this negative judgment set a precedent on professional dynamics, the Council hopes that the Ministry of Health, as an advocate in the case which led to the controversial judgment of first instance, will appeal to the Court of Bologna. To this end, Council members will make "available to assist the Attorney General's office to provide advice and valid scientific literature to highlight in particular the failure of this specific vaccination to create provocative history of autism."