Vaccine Injury Lawsuits Slow to Settlement, Sometimes Dismissed
While stricter vaccine requirements for employees, schools and day care centers spread across the United States, families continue to file vaccine injury claims in the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP). Recent published reports indicate that the government’s system in place to field these claims is a grueling, bureaucratic process, while two out of three…
Our Fixation With Polio and Zika
Imagine 100 people who have symptoms of severe paralysis somewhere on their body… say, their legs. They are all permanently paralyzed, but some of the people have one or more of the following conditions which can produce paralysis similar to polio: Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP); Arsenic Poisoning; Bilious Remittent Fever; Chinese Paralytic Syndrome; Cholera Morbus…