Push for no-fault vax plan.

Australian Doctor,  November, 2005  

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by Jane McCredie

IMMUNISATION experts will lobby the Federal Government to establish a no-fault compensation scheme for injuries caused by vaccination.

Professor David Isaacs, a specialist in paediatric infectious disease and member of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, said he would be asking ATAGI to raise the issue with the government.

"I support [a no-fault scheme] because I think we are expecting people to get their children immunised, and we know that vaccines just occasionally cause damage," he said. "I think it is the most ...

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