Doe v. Secretary of the Dept. of Health & Human Services

OPINION AND ORDER1

WILLIAMS, Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Petitioners’ Motion for Review of the Special Master’s decision denying compensation for the death of their daughter, Monica, under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Petitioners assert that a hepatitis B vaccination, administered when Monica was seven weeks old, triggered an adverse reaction known as a “cytokine storm” which caused cerebral edema and led to her death approximately four-and-a-half hours after she received the vaccination.

The Special Master found that Petitioners did not satisfy their burden…