The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and died in January, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Lynn Sutfin said.
A subsequent investigation that also involved the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Ohio Department of Health determined the patient got rabies from the donated organ. Sutfin did not specify which organ was transplanted.
Just because there was an incident I would not call that a structural problem. We NEED organs to help other people survive, please don’t scare people off from donating them.
Yeah, of course we need to have strict rules and guidelines on how all this has to happen, but please don’t make it sound like if you’re badly injured that a doctor will simply write you off for money, that doesn’t happen.