In 1988, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act created this injury compensation program to address victims who were injured or killed by their reactions to vaccines. In 2008, the program awarded compensation to a Georgia girl whose father, a neurologist, claimed vaccines aggravated her mitochondrial disorder, resulting in autism-like symptoms. This inflamed the autism-vaccine controversy.
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