Yesterday, the United State's Vaccine Court Omnibus Autism Proceeding delivered its ruling to three families who claimed that vaccines were the cause of their children's autism. The courts ruled that "the evidence does not support the general proposition that thimerosal-containing vaccines can damage infants' immune systems," thereby ending the case the parents brought before the special court. The ruling came down not from a single jurist on the bench, but a panel of three "special masters" who were appointed to determine if Michelle Cedillo, Colten Snyder, and William Yates Hazlehurst's autism was caused by either the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine or the vaccine preservative, thiomersal.
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