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"British Firm to Compensate Two French Multiple Sclerosis
Victims"
Agence France Presse (www.afp.com) (05/03/01)

A French court has upheld a lower court ruling that found a link
between GlaxoSmithKline's hepatitis B vaccine and multiple
sclerosis (MS) and has ordered the company to pay two women who
contracted MS after receiving the vaccine an as-yet undetermined
amount of compensation.  The ruling is important, because it
rejected arguments that a direct and irrefutable link between the
vaccine and MS is needed, said Gisele Mor, the plaintiffs'
attorney.  "It ruled that barring scientific evidence, serious,
precise, and similar evidence was enough proof," Mor noted.
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