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Article: CDC Calls Hatl to Vaccinations for People With Heart Disease -- 3 heart attack deaths followed smallpox vaccinations
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- March 29, 2003
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WASHINGTON - A 55-year-old National Guardsman died this week from
a heart attack, the Pentagon said Friday, in the third such death
that followed a smallpox vaccination.
The Defense Department is joining the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention in deferring people with heart disease from being
given the vaccinations until a possible relationship can be
investigated, said Dr. Bill Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of
defense for health affairs.
In Florida, where a health worker died this week after a heart
attack, officials temporarily stopped vaccinations so they could re-
screen people who had volunteered for the shots and eliminate any
with heart problems. New York put its program on ...