Giles v. Secretary of Department of Health & Human Services

OPINION

HORN, Judge.

Petitioners, Joseph R. and Lynda M. Giles, filed their petition for compensation under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 300aa-l to - 34 (1994)1 (“Vaccine Act”), as parents and legal representatives of their deceased son, Garrett Joseph Giles. Petitioners allege that their infant son died on February 9, 1993, as a direct sequela of a Diphtheria-Pertussis-Tetanus (“DPT”)2 vaccination, administered to the infant on February 12,1992. The case *528is before this court on petitioners’ motion for review of the special master’s decision,…