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Appendix E: Vaccine-Injury Compensation in Other Countries
Pages 176-182

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... Mariner of the Harvard University School of Public Health. Professor Mariner's assistance is gratefully acknowledged by the committee.
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... Compensable injuries: adverse postvaccinal effect, defined as any impairment to health exceeding usual extent of a postvaccinal reaction and involving a live virus vaccine; impairment to health resulting from contact with another person vaccinated with a live virus vaccine; impairment to health resulting from accidents during traveling to or from treatment. Eligibility requirements: compensation is provided for a compensable injury resulting from a vaccine that is required by law or recommended by competent authority; ordered pursuant to the Act; or required for reentry into country.
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... Characteristics of the system include: Vaccines covered: mandatory pediatric or adult vaccines administered in accordance with public health law ("accordances elsewhere includes only iIIununizations given by a physician or, in some cases, a midwife)
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... Type of compensation: compensation includes medical and/or funeral expenses, disability pension, annuity for person caring for disabled individual, and a death benefit. Amount of compensation: no specified limitation.
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... SWITZERLAND Federal Law on the Control of Communicable Diseases in Man, December 18, 1970, 818.101 Swiss Federal Law provides for cantons (Swiss political subdivisions corresponding to states in United States) to establish compensation for injuries resulting from either required or officially recommended immunizations.
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... . Eligibility requirements: persons who incur severe disability after vaccination against specified diseases; as the result of a vaccination given to his or her mother before his or her birth; or as the result of a disease contracted through contact with a vaccinated person if contact occurred after 4 days but before 60 days following vaccination and the disabled person was caring for or was being cared for by the vaccinee.
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... 182 Proof of causation: determined on "balance of probability." As of early 1983, 2,868 claims had been received. Most of these were related to vaccinations containing a pertussis element, usually in combination with one or more other vaccines.
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