Alaska medical examiner rules out shellfish poisoning in man's death
by The Associated Press
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The state medical examiner has determined that a heart problem, not shellfish poisoning, killed a man who ate Dungeness crab at a large Haines gathering.

Fifty-seven-year-old John Michael Saunders died several days after eating crab caught near Chilkat Inlet of Lynn Canal.

Saunders' wife, Kate, says the medical examiner concluded he died from heart disease. She says the report says the death was likely the result of arrhythmia due to previous severe heart damage from a series of small, undetected heart attacks.

Saunders was the fifth person to fall ill after eating seafood in June.

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