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Kidney Recipient Dies After Transplant from Organ Donor Who Had Rabies

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by phantasmish

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FTA: “only four donors have transmitted rabies to recipients since 1979”
ONLY?! Rabies cases are really uncommon! I’m seeing 17 in the us from 2015-2024. Even assume double or triple the rates in earlier decades and, what, maybe 200 since 1978? 2-4% chance a given person who dies of rabies has their organs given to someone else? That’s an order of magnitude higher than I’d have guessed. WTF.

by m-hodges

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by OptionOfT

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I got a dermal graft in my hip. Unlike kidneys this is not really a live donation. The grafts are radiated to remove all DNA, so only the structure remains. The purpose of the transplant is to bridge torn tissue, and make the building blocks available to your body to rebuild the bridge (as I've been told).
I hope that radiation killed all (if any) viruses...

by DivingForGold

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by inglor_cz

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Ironically, if you feed the symptoms of the donor into an AI and ask for differential diagnoses, it will tell you: "Is there any history of animal contact? In that case, consider rabies."

by mikkupikku

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Was the kidney donor already dead, from something other than rabies, or were still alive for donation and later died?

by theturtle

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by prisenco

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