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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1986

100 STAT. 3760

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PUBLIC LAW 99-660—NOV. 14, 1986

"(I)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), any person who has sustained a vaccine-related injury, the legal representative of such person if such person is a minor or is disabled, or the legal representative of any person who died as the result of the administration of a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table may file a petition for compensation under the Program. "(B) No person may file a petition for a vaccine-related injury or death associated with a vaccine administered before the effective date of this subtitle if compensation has been paid under this subtitle for 3500 petitions for such injuries or deaths. "(2) Only one petition may be filed with respect to each administration of a vaccine. "(c) PETITION CONTENT.—A petition for compensation under the Program for a vaccine-related injury or death shall contain— "(1) an affidavit, and supporting documentation, demonstrating that the person who suffered such injury or who died— "(A) received a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table or, if such person did not receive such a vaccine, contracted polio, directly or indirectly, from another person who received an oral polio vaccine, "(B)(i) if such person received a vaccine set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table— "(I) received the vaccine in the United States or in its trust territories, "(11) received the vaccine outside the United States or

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a trust territory and at the time of the vaccination such ,j person was a citizen of the United States serving abroad as a member of the Armed Forces or otherwise as an employee of the United States or a dependent of such a citizen, or "(HI) received the vaccine outside the United States or a trust territory and the vaccine was manufactured by a vaccine manufacturer located in the United States and such person returned to the United States not later than 6 months after the date of the vaccination, "(ii) if such person did not receive such a vaccine but contracted polio from another person who received an oral polio vaccine, was a citizen of the United States or a dependent of such a citizen, "(C)(i) sustained, or had significantly aggravated, any o, • illness, disability, injury, or condition set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table in association with the vaccine referred to in subparagraph (A) or died from the administration of such vaccine, and the first symptom or manifestation of the onset or of the significant aggravation of any such illness, disability, injury, or condition or the death occurred within the time period after vaccine administration set forth in the Vaccine Lijury Table, or "(iiXD sustained, or had significantly aggravated, any illness, disability, injury, or condition not set forth in the <x" Vaccine Injury Table but which was caused by a vaccine r referred to in subparagraph (A), or "(II) sustained, or had significantly aggravated, any illi-ljjfj ness, disability, injury, or condition set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table the first symptom or manifestation of the onset or significant aggravation of which did not occur