Only four donors have transmitted rabies to organ transplant recipients since 1978, according to federal officials Transplant recipient dies after rabies infection from donor in michigan, cdc reports a rare case linked to an idaho organ donor. By rylee kirk a man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from.
A recipient of a kidney transplant presented a medical mystery when he died from rabies in january 2025 only weeks after his surgery in an ohio hospital, despite having had no documented contact with the disease. A man died of rabies after getting a kidney transplant from another man who died of the virus, only the fourth instance in nearly 50 years in which an organ donor passed the virus to a recipient, federal officials said. A michigan organ recipient died of rabies after receiving a kidney from an idaho donor who was scratched by a skunk while saving a kitten, the cdc reports.
Centers for disease control and prevention announced on thursday This marks the 10th known case of an organ or tissue. A kidney transplant recipient in michigan died after receiving an organ from a donor later found to be infected with rabies, marking one of only four such transmissions in nearly 50 years The donor, scratched by a skunk, unknowingly carried the virus
Other organ recipients are being treated as a precaution
