Federal Court Finds No Connection Between Thimerosal and Autism

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal special master has ruled in the Autism Omnibus Proceeding that the parents of an autistic child have failed to prove that thimerosal-containing vaccines caused their son to develop autism. Dwyer, et ux. v. Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, No. 03-1202V

On March 12, Special Master Denise K. Vowell ruled that the petitioners' experts did not show that the "exquisitely small amounts of mercury" in the vaccines "can produce devastating effects that far larger amounts experienced prenatally or postnatally from other sources do not."

In May 2003, Timothy and Maria Dwyer …