Re: News - Three Transplant Patients Die of Rabies

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/1/04 5:33:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

alleypat@... writes:

> ATLANTA - Three people died of rabies after receiving infected organs from

> the same donor in what the government says are the first documented cases of

> the disease being spread through organ transplants.

>

>

That is truly bizarre. I guess they're going to have to change cause of

death for the donor. What was written on that death certificate, anyway?! I

know

donors are desperately needed, but please. That hospital will have to pay -

big time. Mind-boggling and tragic.

Jane

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/1/04 5:33:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

alleypat@... writes:

> ATLANTA - Three people died of rabies after receiving infected organs from

> the same donor in what the government says are the first documented cases of

> the disease being spread through organ transplants.

>

>

That is truly bizarre. I guess they're going to have to change cause of

death for the donor. What was written on that death certificate, anyway?! I

know

donors are desperately needed, but please. That hospital will have to pay -

big time. Mind-boggling and tragic.

Jane

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/1/04 5:33:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

alleypat@... writes:

> ATLANTA - Three people died of rabies after receiving infected organs from

> the same donor in what the government says are the first documented cases of

> the disease being spread through organ transplants.

>

>

That is truly bizarre. I guess they're going to have to change cause of

death for the donor. What was written on that death certificate, anyway?! I

know

donors are desperately needed, but please. That hospital will have to pay -

big time. Mind-boggling and tragic.

Jane

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/1/04 5:33:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

alleypat@... writes:

> ATLANTA - Three people died of rabies after receiving infected organs from

> the same donor in what the government says are the first documented cases of

> the disease being spread through organ transplants.

>

>

That is truly bizarre. I guess they're going to have to change cause of

death for the donor. What was written on that death certificate, anyway?! I

know

donors are desperately needed, but please. That hospital will have to pay -

big time. Mind-boggling and tragic.

Jane

[Guest guest]

It is wierd. They say only one or two people a year in the US die of rabies,

usually bitten by bats. I'm amazed any die at all really. Like the West Nile

Virus, they know these things are " probably " spread via organs, (if it's via

blood, duh), but they won't spend the money to check unless the public becomes

aware enough to care.

Alley