Second worker dies of heart attack after smallpox vaccination

Friday, March 28, 2003

WASHINGTON -- A second health care worker has died of a heart attack after receiving the smallpox vaccine, and officials are investigating whether vaccinations are to blame for cardiac problems seen in 17 people who have been inoculated.

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