The History of the Vaccine Program

The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 established a federal no fault system to compensate victims of injury caused by mandated vaccines. In the early 1980s in the wake of reports that the whole cell dpt vaccine was linked to encephalitis and brain damage a flood of product liability lawsuits Was on the verge of bringing the u.S. Vaccine program to its knees later studies exonerated the dpt Especially a large case control study, but those studies did not come out until the 1990s Even though existing evidence at the time did not clearly support a link it did not clearly rule one out as a resultvaccine manufacturers had increasingly difficult difficulty obtaining liability insurance more and more of them stopped making