ROME, Italy (PNN) - May 8, 2012 - An Italian court has ruled there is a link between the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine and autism.

In what may be a groundbreaking decision, the Italian Court of Rimini has ruled that causation between an MMR vaccine and the resulting autism in a young child “has been established”.

The unnamed child received the vaccine in March of 2004 and on returning home immediately developed adverse symptoms. During the next year the child regressed, receiving the autism diagnosis one year later, and is now 100% disabled by the disease.

The Italian court ruled that the child “has been damaged by irreversible complications due to vaccination (prophylaxis trivalent MMR)” and ordered the Ministry of Health to compensate the child with a 15-year annuity and to reimburse the parents for their court costs.

This is the second recent judgment to come to this conclusion. Earlier this year, a Fascist Police States of Amerika court also ruled that the MMR vaccine can cause autism.

In a ruling kept very quiet in the press, the FPSA Court of Federal Claims has conceded that the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, which was in vaccines until 2002, caused autism in the case of at least one child.

The ruling, made by FPSA Assistant Attorney General Peter Keisler, was made last November, and was one of three test cases into the MMR-autism link that was being considered by a three-member panel, which Keisler chaired.

The case involved a child who received nine vaccinations in July 2000, when she was 18 months old. Two of these contained thimerosal. Within days, the girl, who had previously been healthy, began to exhibit loss of language skills, no eye contact, loss of response to verbal direction, insomnia, incessant screaming, and arching.

A diagnosis of autism was confirmed seven months later.