The Washington Post that an undisclosed settlement from a federal vaccine injury compensation fund  is being paid to the family of young child who developed autism after receiving five childhood vaccinations. Health officials from the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention still claim the vaccines are safe. However, officials concede that in this case the shots worsened an underlying disease involving the toddler's mitochodria, causing autism-like symptoms. According to the Washington Post, legal observers believe the case is too narrow to serve as a precedent for other claims alleging that childhood vaccines cause autism.