OT:Fwd: Autopsyman's death to anthrax vaccine

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>Autopsy links man's death to anthrax vaccine

>Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:17:41 -0700

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>Autopsy links man's death to anthrax vaccine

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> Friday, 29 September 2000

> Autopsy links man's death to anthrax vaccine

> " Those of us who work here are confident that there is no

>connection between his death and the anthrax vaccine. "

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> Bob Kramer

> BioPort Corp.

> chief executive officer

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> By Amy Franklin

> THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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> LANSING, Mich. - A 61-year-old man whose job required him to take 11

>doses of a widely used anthrax vaccine died partly because of an

> " inflammatory response " to the vaccine, a doctor contends.

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> Richard Dunn monitored test animals for BioPort Corp. and its

>state-owned predecessor and was required to take the same vaccine given to

>hundreds of thousands of U.S. military personnel. He died in July.

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> Ionia County's chief medical examiner, Robert Joyce, said Dunn's

>response to the vaccine contributed to his death. Joyce refused to release

>his findings to BioPort or Associated Press.

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> Pathologist Stephen Cohle, who performed the autopsy, said Dunn died

>of ventricular arrhythmia due to an inflammation of the arteries that

>supply blood to heart. He said it was unclear whether that inflammation was

>caused by the vaccine, and he disagreed with Joyce's conclusion.

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> " You can't definitively link it, " Cohle said. " I don't think one can

>make a statement that strong at this point - or ever. "

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> The military said 487,098 people have received 1.9 million doses of

>the vaccine through last week. About 400 military personnel, worried about

>the impact on their health, have resigned or faced discipline rather than

>take the vaccine.

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> The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Food and Drug

>Administration are investigating, but the anthrax vaccination program for

>U.S. troops will continue, Bacon said.

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