(d) What happens if a person in US who receives a vaccine suffer? He can and should sue.
(i) National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Health Resources and Services Administration, US Department of Health and Human Services, undated
https://www.hrsa.gov/vaccine-compensation/index.html
("he National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program [VICP] is a no-fault alternative to the traditional legal system for resolving vaccine injury petitions * * * [with] US Court of Federal Claims [a federal court located at Washington, DC"
(A) No fault, just like no-fault divorce, no-fault insurance.
(B) US Court of Federal Claims is a federal court located at Washington, DC. That court handles claims against US government. You see, in feudal society, a king can do no wrong. So his subject can not sue him. But English kings ealy on allowed himself to be sued, so as to compensate injured subjects, who had to sue in royal court. That is how US Court of Federal Claims came into being, in 1855. "Orders and judgments from the court are appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which resides in the same building as the CFC." en.wikipedia.org for United States Court of Federal Claims.
(ii)
(A) Polio Vaccine Lawsuit. The Schmidt Firm (since 1992; based in Dallas, Texas), PLLC, undated
https://www.schmidtlaw.com/polio-vaccine-lawsuit/
("Polio vaccine injury claims are decided in a special federal court. This court, [colloquially] known as the Vaccine Court, is located in Washington DC. It consists of experts who review vaccine injury claims. The job of the court is to decide whether the case shows a high probability that the vaccine caused an injury. The experts are authorized to award up to $250,000 in financial compensation from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP), a special fund that has awarded more than $2.4 billion in compensation since 1989 [for injuries related to all vaccines; as for injuries related to IPV, see last]. * * * The VICP only awards compensation for serious injuries. For example, the injury must have lasted for six months or more, or caused a disability or death, or required hospitalization or surgery. * * * The claim must be filed within three years of an injury, two years of a death, or four years for an injury that caused death. * * * As of June 1, 2012, the VICP has received 276 IPV polio vaccine claims, including 262 for injuries and 14 for deaths. So far, the VICP has decided to award compensation in 7 cases, and they have dismissed 266 cases")
All of these requirements in the quotations is found in federal law called National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) of 1986, codified as 42 USC §§ 300aa-1 to 300aa-34). The "300aa-1" and "300aa-34" are section numbers. See next.
(B) Meredith Wadman, Vaccines on Trial: US Court Separates Fact from Fiction. Science (magazine), 356: 370-373 (Apr 28, 2017)
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2 ... arates-fact-fiction
(vaccine-related injury: "shoulder injuries have become by far the most common. Rarer injuries include * * * anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction that almost any vaccine can cause and occurs 1.3 times per million vaccinations; intussusception, an intestinal blockage that occurs in between one and five of every 100,000 infants vaccinated against rotavirus; and brachial neuritis (also called Parsonage-Turner syndrome), a painful inflammation of the nerves supplying the hand and arm, which afflicts up to 10 of every million tetanus vaccinees [sic]")
* Meredith Wadman. Science, undated
www.sciencemag.org/author/meredith-wadman
("Meredith joined Science as a staff writer focusing on neuroscience in [2016] * * * Meredith earned her B.A. in Human Biology at Stanford University and began medical school at the University of British Columbia in her native Vancouver. She completed her medical degree as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and earned a master's of science at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism")
* Anaphylaxis comes about because vaccines are often made in bioreactors that contain (suspended, individual) animal cells or yeasts -- the workhorse that produce the protein that is the vaccine in question. Purification can not be 100%, and minute amount of impurities can cause allergy, even anaphylaxis (which can be treated with an EpiPen).
* intussusception (medical condition)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intussusception_(medical_disorder)
(diagram)
* brachial plexus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachial_plexus
Is a bundle of nerves from the spine to hands, on the armpit side. That is why the last sentence of this article says the needle was not long enough to injure a nerve.
English dictionary:
* brachial (adj; etymology)
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/brachial
* plexus
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/plexus
* omnibus (adj; French, from Latin, for all, dative plural of omnis; Did You Know?)
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/omnibus
(iii) Vaccine Injury Compensation Programs. In The History of Vaccines. College of Physicians of Philadelphia, undatedundated.
https://www.historyofvaccines.or ... mpensation-programs
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co ... ans_of_Philadelphia
(a medical society)
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