Vaccines May Have Caused a Soldiers' Death

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>Vaccines May Have Caused a Soldiers' Death

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>Press Release

>Department of Defense

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>Jun 23, 2006

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>A panel of military physician experts has concluded that

>vaccinations may have caused the death of a 26-year-old Army

>soldier.

>The soldier, Pfc. " " Abston, received smallpox and

>injectable influenza vaccines in Nov. 18, 2005, at Fort Bragg, N.C.,

>16 days before suffering sudden death in his barracks room.

>Following evaluation of multiple specialized test results, the panel

>considered a cause-and-effect relationship to be " possible. " The

>smallpox vaccine received by Abston is known to cause an

>inflammation of the heart muscle or myocarditis, a condition found

>at his autopsy.

>Evidence of the vaccinia virus, the main ingredient of smallpox

>vaccine, was not found in his heart muscle, but evidence of a

>different virus, parvovirus B19, was found. Natural infection with

>parvovirus B19 is another known cause of heart inflammation and

>death. The expert panel cautioned that the findings pointing to

>vaccinations were neither probable nor unlikely, but they do suggest

>the possibility that the vaccines may have caused Abston's death.

>Among the one million military personnel given smallpox vaccine

>since December 2002, 120 developed myocarditis or similar

>conditions, but none of them died. DoD screens all personnel to be

>given smallpox vaccinations and about eight percent are excluded due

>to screening criteria. It also advises all smallpox vaccine

>recipients, who develop chest pain after smallpox vaccination to

>seek medical care without delay. In the 120 cases mentioned above,

>such chest pain most often occurred in the first three weeks after

>smallpox vaccination.

>The DoD conducts its smallpox vaccination program to protect troops

>assigned to U.S. Central Command, U.S. Forces Korea, or designated

>units with homeland defense missions.

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>Source:

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