Ulster Ireland - £2m payout over children disabled by vaccinations

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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=717372

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£2m payout over children disabled by vaccinations

By Sam McBride

04 December 2006

The Government has paid almost £2m to Ulster children left severely

disabled by vaccines, despite claiming the routine jabs are safe, the

Belfast Telegraph can today reveal.

The Government has compensated 25 children in Northern Ireland since the

payments were introduced in 1979, while its relentless assertion has been

the vaccination programme is safe.

In response to a freedom of information request the Department for Work and

Pensions (DWP) said details of which vaccines were responsible for

disability were not held.

The original Vaccine Damage Payment of £10,000 was increased to £100,000 in

2000 and backdated payments were made to 24 of the Ulster children who had

claimed before 2000.

One Northern Ireland family who believe their son died as a result of a

vaccine said the 25 children who have been compensated are only a fraction

of the children who had been affected.

Anne Coulter found her 15-year-old son dead in bed ten days

after receiving the measles and rubella (MR) vaccine at school in 1994.

's heartbroken Hillsborough parents said they have fought a

12-year battle to discover the truth about why their son died.

" My requests for information about 's death have been blocked at

every turn by the Government, " Mrs Coulter said.

" was an active, healthy boy who had enormous energy and was

head chorister at St Anne's Cathedral, " she explained.

Seven days before Christmas, she found her previously healthy son dead.

" It was terrible ? no one expects to find their child dead, but the

opposition we have faced from the Department of Health (DHSSPS) has been

unbelievable.

" One of 's classmates also took a seizure after being vaccinated

with the same batch of vaccine and took three years to recover. "

's father Harry said the family wanted a judicial review of the

inquest because the pathologist has since admitted the vaccine issue should

not have been excluded from his initial report.

" In his letter to the coroner, the pathologist failed to say

received a vaccine before he died, and then another pathologist visited and

told us the vaccine wasn't responsible, " he said.

" We could not understand this because they never gave us any other

explanation for why he died yet immediately ruled out the obvious ? the MR

vaccine.

" We got the our son's tissue blocks released and an English pathologist

found the vaccine played a part in 's death, " he added.

A DHSSPS spokeswoman said: " For all vaccine-preventable diseases the risk

of complications with the natural infections is much greater than the risk

of a serious adverse reaction following the vaccine.

" Vaccines are designed to strengthen the immune system and protect against

very serious diseases such as meningitis and measles. Uptake rates for

childhood vaccines in Northern Ireland are very good and continue to

increase. "

The Vaccine Damage Payments Unit can be contacted on 017728 99944.

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath

Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK

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