Does evidence suggest they cause diseases in children?
Gailon Totheroh explains. “He was hospitalized two days after the shot and he was running a fever of 103. And he was so hot that the nurse that was standing there could feel the heat radiating off his body.” Jeremy’s mother Lynn said. For the last 29 years, Jeremy has not spoken an intelligible word. Cases like this are not uncommon — 4,500 families are suing the government because they believe vaccines caused their child’s autism. Since the 1980s, critics have questioned the safety and effectiveness of vaccines. Government health officials and most doctors insist the benefits are large and the problems exaggerated. “The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism,” said Irwin Redlener, MD, Columbia University. Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center says there are real problems, but many doctors are in denial. She said, “It can’t be true — beca
