Vaccine court
The VICP covers all vaccines listed on the Vaccine Injury Table maintained by the Secretary of Health and Human Services; in 2007 the list included vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), measles, mumps, rubella (German measles), polio, hepatitis B, varicella (chicken pox), "Haemophilus influenzae" type b, rotavirus, and pneumonia. From 1988 until 8 January 2008, 5,263 claims relating to autism, and 2,865 non-autism claims, were made to the VICP. 925 of these claims, one autism-related (see previous rulings), were compensated, with 1,158 non-autism and 350 autism claims dismissed; awards (including attorney's fees) totaled $847 million. The VICP also applies to claims for injuries suffered before 1988; there were 4,264 of these claims of which 1,189 were compensated with awards totaling $903 million.
Roselyn J. Eisenberg
She is also very focused on studying the poxvirus variola, also known as smallpox, and the virus that is used as a vaccine against variola, called vaccina. Her main goal is to understand how this virus enters a cell and also to come up with a subunit vaccine that will expand upon and improve the current vaccine for variola, which can have serious side effects and may not be used on pregnant women or individuals with an impaired immune system. She is directing her focus to the entry protein L1, which she believes is the receptor binding protein for vaccina and will be able to improve limitations of the current vaccine for smallpox.