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Children Compensated for Vaccine Injuries
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program
In 1988, the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was established to provide compensation for children who suffered a permanent injury as a result of a vaccination. The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has given more than one billion dollars to those injured from vaccinations.
To receive compensation, the patient must receive a covered vaccine and experience the reaction within days or weeks of the vaccination. Vaccines covered by the program include tetanus, whooping cough, mumps, measles, polio, rubella, chicken pox, hepatitis B, hemophilus influenza type B and rotavirus.