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

OPINION

REGINALD W. GIBSON, Judge:

Introduction

This vaccine case is before the court on petitioner’s motion for review of the special master’s decision. It involves the death of Crystal Renee Miller (Crystal) approximately 20 hours after she received a diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus (DPT) vaccination. In her decision, the special master determined that the record failed to establish by a preponderance of the evidence that Crystal suffered a Table injury known as a hypo-tonic-hyporesponsive collapse (HHE) (otherwise known as a shock collapse), as required by the National Childhood Vaccine Injury…