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If you were to recieve a kidney from a deceased donor, what sort of infectious transmissions would you worry about? HIV, CMV, Hep B, Hep C? cuz those are the infections that would worry me. but the correct answer to that question is RABIES!!
there was a report of 3 transplant patients contracting rabies from their donor: one got a liver and two got a kidney each from the same dude who died of subarachnoid hemorrhage. maybe the fact that he'd been bitten by a bat (or was foaming at the mouth and effin CRAZY) might have been a good clue that he wasn't an ideal organ donor. it would suck pretty bad to have the doctors come in and say "the good news is you have a new kidney! the bad news is that you now also have rabies and 2 days to live..."
there was a report of 3 transplant patients contracting rabies from their donor: one got a liver and two got a kidney each from the same dude who died of subarachnoid hemorrhage. maybe the fact that he'd been bitten by a bat (or was foaming at the mouth and effin CRAZY) might have been a good clue that he wasn't an ideal organ donor. it would suck pretty bad to have the doctors come in and say "the good news is you have a new kidney! the bad news is that you now also have rabies and 2 days to live..."