In this you will hear that THIMERISOL is still in FLU SHOTS, At 13, Michelle Cedillo can't speak, wears a diaper and suffers seizures. Michelle has no idea she is at the center of a court case over the vaccines she was given for measles, mumps and rubella. Her parents say she was a happy, normal toddler until she got the shots. They believe the MMR vaccine, combined with a mercury-containing preservative found in that and other vaccines at the time, drastically altered the course of their daughter's development. Within days of receiving the injection as part of the normal course of vaccinations, Michelle suffered from a high fever, persistent vomiting and problems with her digestion. Worse still, her parents say, Michelle stopped speaking and no longer responded to her name.
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"I thought it was because she was so sick. I thought certainly she'll start talking again," Theresa recalls. "You think you're dealing with something that's going to come and go, and you're going to get your child back, and you don't." Michelle has since been diagnosed with autism, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis, osteoporosis and epilepsy.