Rodriguez v. Secretary of Health & Human Services

OPINION

MEROW, Senior Judge.

This National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act matter is before the court on Petitioner’s Motion for Review of the Opinion, filed May 13, 2005, in this case by the chief special master. The opinion in question denied relief concluding that petitioner had failed to satisfy her burden of proof that the measles-mumps-rubella (“MMR”) vaccination administered to her son, Mario Arturo Rodriguez (“Mario”) on January 25, 2000, caused the transverse myelitis/quadriparesis (“TM”) he manifested shortly thereafter.

Upon review of the record evidence together with the briefs of the…