Opinion ID: 628329
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Text: 6 Section 300aa-11(a)(5)(B) provides: If a plaintiff has pending a civil action for damages for a vaccine-related injury or death, such person may not file a petition under subsection (b) of this section for such injury or death. Although the statute defines vaccine-related injury or death as an illness, injury, condition, or death associated with one or more of the vaccines set forth in the Vaccine Injury Table, except that the term does not include an illness, injury, condition, or death associated with an adulterant or contaminant intentionally added to such a vaccine, Sec. 300aa-33(5), it does not define civil action. In order to determine to what types of civil actions the prohibitions of Sec. 300aa-11(a)(5)(B) apply, it is necessary to look at that subsection in context with other provisions of that section and the Vaccine Act as a whole. 7