Dennis Geary v. HHS - Influenza, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) (2025)

On April 22, 2024, Dennis Geary filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccination administered on October 1, 2021 caused Guillain-Barre Syndrome. He pursued the claim as a Table GBS case in the Special Processing Unit.

The dispute centered on onset. Table GBS requires onset between three and forty-two days after a seasonal flu vaccine.

Mr. Geary's affidavit referred to symptoms around October 7, 2021, but contemporaneous medical records recorded symptoms beginning about one day after vaccination.

Respondent objected to the Table claim, and Mr. Geary consented to dismissal of that Table theory.

Chief Special Master Brian H. Corcoran dismissed the Table GBS claim on April 7, 2025.

The decision allowed the matter to proceed outside the Special Processing Unit on a possible off-Table causation-in-fact theory. No compensation award appears in the available public record.