This article points out that vaccines may lead to fevers which may in turn lead to neurological damage:
… in November, the government conceded one of the claims. The parents of Hannah Poling have shown that she suffered a high fever and eventually became autistic following the administration of five shots when she was about two years old. She was later diagnosed as having a mitochondrial disorder, a condition in which brain cells malfunction because they lack energy to deal with stresses like fever.
In some ways it becomes a chicken or the egg question. Did the vaccine in some way lead to a mitochondrial disorder? Or did the child have the disorder and the fever caused by the vaccine led to the autism. It does not seem that “experts” are interested in that question:
Most experts, like Edwin Trevathan, director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, have discounted the significance of the Poling case. No one has previously linked vaccines to mitochondrial disorders, he pointed out. However, doctors have often seen that fevers from vaccine-preventable diseases led to the onset of neurological disorders in kids with mitochondrial dysfunction.
This guy sounds like a spin doctor, he is essentially saying that even if the vaccine did lead to autism in this case in other cases they might prevent high fevers that lead to autism. This is sort of like listening to Rush Limbaugh talk about global warming, where he argues that it is not happening but even if it is, it is a good thing.
The vaccine industry is a multi-billion dollar business and this guy sounds like he wants to make sure the cash continues to flow whether these vaccines are safe or not. Before the US can reform our health care system the conflicts of interest that permeate the medical profession need to be dealt with.