GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan man died after receiving a kidney transplant from a donor who had undiagnosed rabies, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
A tragic series of events led to a fatal case of transplant-related rabies earlier this year. Health officials announced Thursday that an organ recipient who underwent transplant surgery in Ohio died ...
Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials. By Rylee Kirk A man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another ...
A Michigan man died from rabies after receiving a kidney transplant at an Ohio hospital. The donor was likely infected with rabies after being scratched by a skunk weeks before his death. Rabies is ...
A Michigan man contracted rabies from an infected person through an organ transplant. The man died in February, 51 days after he received a kidney transplant from an infected Idaho man, according to a ...
A Michigan man has died of rabies weeks after receiving a kidney transplant at an Ohio hospital, according to a new CDC report. The donor — an Idaho resident — had been scratched by a skunk while ...