Autism: Vancouver Lawyer, David Klein, Fights for damaged children by Mercury Vaccinations
Mercury in Vaccines Blamed for Illnesses (A class action sought for autistic children)
-by Keith Fraser, The Vancouver Province, Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Parents seek money for autistic children through class-action lawsuits
Niko Soursos was born a happy, healthy boy.
He spoke some words just before he turned one and seemed normal in every other way.
But after several routine shots of hepatitis-B vaccine, Niko started to withdraw from his mother and
father and stopped speaking.
His alarmed parents had his hearing checked and it was found to be OK but further tests revealed the
boy, who will be three in
March, was autistic. Elias Soursos believes his son suffered neurological damage from a preservative
organic mercury
compound in the vaccines and yesterday joined a class-action lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court against
the drug
manufacturers.
"It's basically been a nightmare," the Richmond father said yesterday. "The only reason
why I'm participating in this class-action
lawsuit is for my son. "You're worried about what's going to happen with him when he's older. If
he's not going to be functioning on
his own, who is going to take care of him when we're gone?"
Soursos is alleging the makers of the vaccine, Merck Frosst Canada & Co. and Glaxosmithkline Inc.,
knew or ought to have
known the "neurotoxic effects" of the mercury compound Thimerosal contained in the shots.
Another, similar class-action suit was
filed in B.C. Supreme Court for a Sooke mother whose boy got DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) shots
that she alleges
resulted in her son developing autistic symptoms.
Jacqueline Chamberlain says her son Aaron suffered neurological damage after he got two doses of the
vaccine containing
Thimerosal, made by Aventis Pasteur Ltd.
At about 18 months of age, after receiving the shots, he became unresponsive, withdrawn and slow in
speech development. He
also started to display repetitive behaviours and an obsessive-compulsive disorder, she says. Aaron
was diagnosed with autism
at age five and now, at 10, has limited language and social skills.
David Klein, the Vancouver lawyer for the two families, said mercury poisoning is well documented in
medical literature. He also
noted that the developing nervous systems of infants are particularly vulnerable. About 20 other B.C.
kids are attached to the two
class-action certification applications, which could take eight months or more to be heard. If the cases
are certified, they will
proceed in court.
Another class-action application making similar allegations and involving 100 families in Ontario, Manitoba,
Alberta and
Saskatchewan was filed by Klein in Ontario last March. That case has not yet been heard.
About 50 to 60 suits are also ongoing in the U.S. but there have been no outcomes there yet, Klein said.
Thimerosal is no longer used in routine vaccines for children in Canada. Officials at Merck Frosst Canada
and Glaxosmithkline
said they had not yet seen the court documents and had no comment.
Aventis Pasteur could not be reached yesterday but said last year that Health Canada had approved its
vaccines and it intended
to defend itself vigorously in court.
'HIGHER SUSCEPTIBILITY' IN SOME KIDS
Thousands of B.C. kids got routine vaccines with the mercury compound Thimerosal but not all developed autism, says the lawyer who has launched a series of class-action lawsuits.
"The claim is not that all kids that get Thimerosal get autism," said David Klein. "It's
that certain kids have a higher susceptibility.
Different people have different metabolisms."
The warning signs for parents to watch for include developmental delays, language problems, motor-skill
problems and lack of
concentration, said Klein. The DPT (diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus) vaccine with Thimerosal was routine
in Canada from 1980 to
the mid-1990s.
The hepatitis-B vaccine with Thimerosal was routine in Greater Vancouver from 1998 to 2001 and elsewhere
in B.C. from 2000
to 2001. A Thimerosal-free hep-B vaccine was introduced in 2001.
The Province.
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