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

ORDER

AFFIRMING SPECIAL MASTER’S ' DECISION

WIESE, Judge.

This case is before the court on petitioners’ appeal from a decision of the special master, entered April 19, 1993, denying their claim to compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, 42 U.S.C.A. §§ 300aa-l-300aa-34 (West 1991 & Supp.1993), for an alleged “table” injury, i.e., an injury whose occurrence the Vaccine Act presumes was vaccine-caused.1 The claim rests on the contention that, within three days after the administration of a diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccine, petitioners’ daughter suffered an…