Dixon v. Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services

OPINION AND ORDER

BLOCK, Judge.

I. Introduction

This is a case brought under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (the “Act”)2 *2for review of the Special Master’s denial of a claim for compensation. But at its heart, this case is about a tragedy brought about by a cruel providence and a failure of learning. The tragedy here is of the worst sort, the illness of a child — in this case a baby boy. The failure here is also of the worst sort, the inability of medicine and science to agree as to the cause of this little boy’s illness. While the root of the illness may not be the result of human…