vaccine was introduced in the 1990s, barbara fisher claims it caused diabetes. it doesn't. when the hepatitis b was first introduced, there again was barbara fisher on "world news tonight" claiming that the vaccine caused sudden infant death or multiple sclerosis. there was a "20/20" on the role giving advice, making the claim it was causing permanent harm. these were emotional shows. the show on "20/20" when hugh and barbara were the host, the mother that had given and within a day passed away. the mother said my child was fine. now the vaccine killed her. then they showed the tomb stone, you know, the encryption our little angel. anyone who is human is going to be moved. maybe this is a vaccine that should be avoided, even know we clearly now it doesn't cause sudden infant death. it's only designed to prevent one specific path again. it doesn't protect everything else. some of them are going to happen with the vaccine, but not cause it. >> the greatest hit of vaccine has been the human papillomavirus. the only vaccine that caused the uterus cancer. they claim they were fi

together called the pt they had to enter new to the national vaccine information center that barbara fisher was the head. this was powerful and connected enough early on that within one month of the hearing there was congressional hearings headed by a paula hawkins from a republican senator from florida who was looking into whether or not vaccines were doing more harm than good. the result was predictable with a flood of litigation claiming they not only because the epilepsy or mental retardation, a comas, sudden infant death syndrome and there were hundreds of millions of dollars in its settlements and awards and companies were abandoning the business. we went from six measles vaccine work -- makers down to one and eight whooping cough makers down at one. we were on the verge of losing vaccines. what happened is the government stepped in to create the national childhood injury act and decorated a compensation program to put up a wall between the parent and the pharmaceutical company you had to go through the federal claims court before you could sue a pharmaceutical company in open court.

area that day including barbara fisher, kathy williams, and jeff schwarz to get together through that local nbc affiliate, got people to call the show and get together. they very quickly within a couple of weeks formed a group called dissatisfied parents together towards the pt. by the early 1990's they had changed their name to the national vaccine information center of which laura fisher was the head. this group was powerful enough and connected enough early on, within one month of the shows airing there was a congressional hearing headed by carl hawkins, which is a republican senator from florida do was looking into whether are not vaccines, in fact, were doing more harm than good. the result was predictable. there was a flood of litigation claiming the vaccine not only caused epilepsy or mental retardation but and explained, sudden infant death syndrome and other illnesses to the point that there were hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements and awards. companies were largely abandoning the business. we went from six measles containing -- measles vaccine makers to one, three