-Caveat Lector- From http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200011062.shtml }}>Begin 11/06/2000 news alert! By Timothy W. Maier and Jamie Dettmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anthrax-Vaccine Death Heats Up Simmering Controversy Congressional critics of the U.S. military’s mandatory anthrax-vaccine program are likely to redouble their efforts to secure a suspension of the program following the death of a lab employee who received the vaccine. Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, intends to raise the issue of the death of BioPort Corp. employee Richard Dunn during upcoming congressional hearings on the vaccine, news alert! has learned. According to a Michigan medical examiner, the vaccine contributed to Dunn’s death. In May, Jones helped organize a letter from 35 members of Congress urging Defense Secretary William Cohen to suspend the program until a long-term study of the vaccine was done. The Lansing, Mich.-based BioPort is the sole supplier of the anthrax vaccine being given to 2.3 million U.S. troops. The Pentagon insists the vaccine is safe and that the program is necessary to ensure that U.S. military personnel would be immune from an anthrax attack. Ten nations are believed to hold stockpiles of the deadly biological agent. BioPort has faced congressional criticism ever since it was awarded the multimillion-dollar vaccine contract from the Pentagon after purchasing the lab from the state of Michigan. So far about 487,098 military personnel have received 1.9 million doses of the vaccine. About 400 military personnel who are concerned about the possible side effects from the vaccine have refused to take the shot or resigned. Many are awaiting disciplinary action. About 1,152 military personnel have reported adverse reactions to the shots, ranging from allergies to the onset of lupus. Employees at the lab voluntarily have taken the vaccine for 30 years and more than half of BioPort’s 210 employees have received the six-dose vaccine. Dunn, age 61, died in July. He had worked in the lab since 1992, when the state owned the facility. He had received 11 doses of the vaccine, including the last shot in April. An August autopsy revealed Dunn had an “inflammatory response” to the vaccine throughout his body, according to Ionia County Chief Medical Examiner Robert Joyce. However, BioPort denies that the vaccine played any role in Dunn’s death and the company notes it did not produce the vaccine that was injected into Dunn’s body. BioPort has yet to receive Food and Drug Administration approval to manufacture the vaccine; currently troops and lab employees are being injected with vaccine from stockpiles that were produced when Michigan owned the lab. BioPort’s chief executive officer, Bob Kramer, said in a prepared statement that “those of us who work here are confident that there is no connection between his death and the anthrax vaccine.” He also noted that t he death certificate states that the immediate cause of death was ventricular arrhythmia and does not refer to any underlying cause. However, Joyce told the Lansing State Journal that “even though they didn’t find any anthrax in the man’s system, his body’s reaction to the vaccine contributed to his death.” Meanwhile, BioPort continues to face serious management and financial problems. In September, it recalled some of the doses of the military anthrax vaccine because of labeling and contamination concerns. The company also is facing financial problems despite receiving an $18 million advance in 1999 from the U.S. military (see “Why BioPort Got a Shot in the Arm,” Sept. 20, 1999). BioPort says it may need another $18 million handout to avoid a money crunch this year. 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