{"package_id":"USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732","decision_granule_id":"USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732-0","petitioner_identifier":"Virginia Fisher","is_minor":0,"age_at_vaccination":null,"age_unit_raw":"adult (exact age not stated in public source)","vaccine_type":"influenza","vaccination_date":"2021-09-07","condition_raw":"Guillain-Barre syndrome and chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy","condition_category":"neurological","autism_spectrum_adjacent":0,"outcome":"dismissed","award_amount_usd":null,"decision_date":"2025-09-25","extraction_version":"manual-supplement-redo-2026-05-normal38","extracted_at":"2026-05-04 21:06:08","number_of_concurrent_vaccines":1,"dose_number":null,"time_to_onset_days":null,"theory_of_causation":"Influenza vaccine, September 7, 2021, adult pro se petitioner with exact age not stated, alleged GBS/CIDP. DISMISSED as untimely. Medical history included gastric bypass, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, hypertension, musculoskeletal complaints, and later COVID-19 infection. Earliest potentially neurologic/GI onset dates in the record were October 2021, with hospitalization in November 2021 for COVID-positive illness, diplopia, facial weakness, lower-extremity numbness/weakness, LP albuminocytologic dissociation, and IVIG treatment. Special Master Young found the petition filed October 23, 2024 was more than 36 months after first symptom or manifestation even using petitioner's recalled mid-October onset. Award: none.","is_death":0,"date_of_death":null,"petition_filed_date":"2024-10-23","case_summary":"On October 23, 2024, Virginia Fisher, proceeding pro se, filed a petition alleging that an influenza vaccine administered on September 7, 2021, caused Guillain-Barre syndrome and later chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy.\n\nThe medical record described substantial pre-existing and intervening medical issues, including gastric bypass surgery earlier in 2021, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, hypertension, musculoskeletal complaints, and later COVID-19 infection. In the weeks after vaccination, Ms. Fisher had right leg and knee complaints and then repeated emergency visits for nausea and vomiting. In November 2021, she was hospitalized after weeks of gastrointestinal symptoms and about a week of diplopia and headache, with lower-extremity numbness and weakness developing during the admission. She tested positive for COVID-19. Neurology suspected COVID-related GBS with cranial nerve involvement, lumbar puncture showed albuminocytologic dissociation, and she was treated with IVIG and then rehabilitation. Later records used CIDP diagnoses or considered other explanations including myasthenia gravis, nutritional neuropathy, hypothyroidism, and autoimmune disease.\n\nSpecial Master Herbrina D.S. Young dismissed the petition as untimely. During a September 2025 status conference, Ms. Fisher recalled nausea and vomiting beginning around a birthday event in mid-October 2021; the records also contained possible earlier October 2021 symptom references. Even using the later recalled onset, the petition filed on October 23, 2024, was outside the Vaccine Act's 36-month limitations period. No compensation was awarded.","is_minor_inferred":1,"is_pediatric_broad":0,"special_master":"Herbrina Sanders Young","petitioner_identifier_original":null,"caption_petitioner_name":null,"petitioner_attorney_name":null,"petitioner_attorney_firm":null,"petitioner_attorney_location":null,"adjudicator_name":null,"caption_people_backfilled_at":null,"attorney_canonical_keys":null,"firm_canonical_key":null,"package_title":"FISHER v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","canonical_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732","plain_text_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732.txt","json_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/case/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732.json","source_documents":[{"granule_id":"USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732-0","title":"FISHER v. SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","docket_text":"PUBLIC DECISION (Originally filed: 9/25/2025) regarding 28 DECISION of Special Master Signed by Special Master Herbrina D S Young. (gf) Service on parties made. (Main Document 29 replaced on 10/21/2025 to include reissued date and footnote) (sw). Petitioner served via e-mail on 10/21/2025 (sw).","date_issued":"2025-10-20","pdf_url":"https://api.govinfo.gov/packages/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732/granules/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732-0/pdf","pdf_bytes":300370,"triage_decision":"keep","triage_reason":"docketText matches keep keyword 'decision of special master'","download_status":"ok","registry_pdf_url":"https://vicp-registry.org/pdf/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732/USCOURTS-cofc-1_24-vv-01732-0"}]}