Failure to Immunize Responsible for Measles Outbreaks
Recent times have seen an incredible amount of attention given to the debate over the efficacy and safety of vaccines. “Anti-vaxxer” has become a mainstream meme. Meanwhile, scientists now believe that a failure to immunize children against measles has caused the biggest outbreak in that disease in decades.
Vaccines Injury Only a Small Fraction of Recipients
Running contrary to the impassioned arguments of anti-vaxxers is a database that offers hard facts on vaccinations in America. Maintained by the National Vaccine Compensation Program, the database shows that in the past dozen years in the United States, people have received about 126 million doses of vaccines against measles. This is a disease that was once responsible for epidemics, killing almost 500 people per year. Through all of those 125 million vaccinations, only 284 people filed claims of harm from those immunizations through the federal program created to compensate those injured by vaccines. While about half those claims were dismissed, the other half were compensated.
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was launched in 1988. It’s a no-fault system established through federal law and it offers a forum for claims of harm from vaccines. The program currently covers claims arising from 15 childhood vaccines as well as the seasonal flu shot. Over the past 30 years, the program has awarded claims to almost 7000 people harmed by vaccines.
PA & NJ Vaccine Injury Attorney
At Green & Schafle LLC, our partner, David J. Carney, Esquire, has been handling vaccine cases in the VICP for several years and is currently the Vice President of the Vaccine Bar Association, the national organization dedicated to representing those injured by vaccines.
As a Pennsylvania vaccine lawyer, New Jersey vaccine lawyer, and Delaware vaccine lawyer, David routinely represents individuals in the tristate area, as well as nationwide, who have been injured from vaccines.
If you or someone know has been injured by a vaccine, please contact us immediately for a free consultation at 215 462 3330 or by using our online contact form.
