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MEDICAL EXAMINER LINKS DEATH TO VACCINE

 
BioPort Corp., an anthrax vaccination manufacturer, and a pathologist on Thursday questioned the ruling of a medical examiner who linked the death of a BioPort employee to the vaccine he received. Grand Rapids pathologist Stephen Cohle, who performed the autopsy on Richard Dunn, 61, ruled Dunn died in July of an inflammation of the arteries that supply blood to heart. It is unclear whether that inflammation was caused by the anthrax vaccination, Cohle said. But Ionia County Chief Medical Examiner Robert Joyce, responsible for recording the results of the autopsy, attributed the inflammation to the vaccine.