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===Vaccines=== In the [[United States]] courts have applied strict liability to [[vaccines]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Emanuel |first=Steven L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oBbxEAAAQBAJ&dq=strict+liability+vaccines+2024&pg=PR26 |title=Emanuel Law Outlines for Torts |date=2024-01-26 |publisher=Aspen Publishing |isbn=978-1-5438-0757-8 |language=en}}</ref> since the [[Cutter incident]] in 1955.<ref name=Offit>{{cite book |last=Offit |first=Paul A. |author-link=Paul Offit |year=2005 |title=The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-10864-4|url=https://archive.org/details/cutterincidentho00offi/page/100 }}</ref> Some vaccines (e.g. for [[Lyme disease]])<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hall |first1=Mark A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lkb2EAAAQBAJ&dq=strict+liability+vaccines+2024&pg=PT479 |title=Health Care Law and Ethics |last2=Bobinski |first2=Mary Anne |last3=Orentlicher |first3=David |last4=Cohen |first4=I. Glenn |last5=Bagley |first5=Nicholas |last6=Sawicki |first6=Nadia N. |date=2024-02-28 |publisher=Aspen Publishing |isbn=978-1-5438-3887-9 |language=en}}</ref> have been removed from the market because of unacceptable liability risk to the manufacturer.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Detels |first1=Roger |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7H8yDwAAQBAJ&dq=strict+liability+vaccines+Lyme&pg=RA1-PA24 |title=Oxford Textbook of Global Public Health |last2=Gulliford |first2=Martin |last3=Karim |first3=Quarraisha Abdool |last4=Tan |first4=Chorh Chuan |date=2017 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-881013-1 |language=en}}</ref> The [[National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act]] (NCVIA) was enacted in 1986 to make an exception for childhood vaccines that are required for [[State school|public school]] attendance. The NCVIA created a no-fault compensation scheme to stabilize a vaccine market adversely affected by an increase in vaccine-related lawsuits, and to facilitate compensation to claimants who found pursuing legitimate vaccine-inflicted injuries too difficult and cost prohibitive.<ref name=Offit/><ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Bentley |first=Linda |url=http://sonorannews.com/2017/07/03/vaccine-manufacturers-exempt-liability/ |title=Why vaccine manufacturers are exempt from liability |work=Sonoran News |date=July 3, 2017}}</ref>
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