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the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.   Some parents of children
with autism spectrum disorders have attributed the disorders'
onset to vaccines, often citing the mercury-based preservative
thiomersal as the cause, and some have filed suit for
compensation from vaccine makers. The medical and scientific
communities near unanimously deny a link between routine
childhood vaccines and autism, as no evidence has been found to
support this.[2]  National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act[edit]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up the
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) in 1988 to
compensate individuals and families of individuals injured by
covered childhood vaccines.[3] The VICP was adopted in response
to a scare over the pertussis portion of the DPT vaccine.[1]
These claims were later generally discredited, but some U.S.
lawsuits against vaccine makers won substa