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CHCC Decision Database - Detail & Summary Screen
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On February 24, 2006, Special Master Laura Millman ruled that a hepatitis B vaccine caused an adult woman to suffer transverse myelitis (TM), a serious neurological, demyelinating disorder. The evidence in this case was stronger than most, because the petitioner suffered two separate episodes of TM after two separate hepatitis B vaccines (a "challenge/rechallenge" case). However, significantly, the Special Master also found probative value in a variety of pieces of circumstantial evidence, such as an appropriate temporal relationship between the vaccines and the episodes of TM, the absence of another likely cause, similar case reports, the opinions of the petitioner's treating doctors, and other cases of vaccine-related TM filed in the Vaccine Program. This decision, we believe, bodes well for numerous other petitioners who allege that a hepatitis B vaccine caused a neurological demyelinating disorder.
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