WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has reversed the court below and affirmed a special master's denial of benefits to a woman who claimed that the tetanus-diphtheria (TD) vaccination caused a petitioner's acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM), saying refutation of a petitioner's theory of injury is not tantamount to an assertion of alternative causation (Adela Quintana de Bazan v. Secretary, No. 2008-5013 Fed. Cir.; 2008 U.S. App. LEXIS 18519; See June 2006, Page 4).
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