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Woman in Michigan died after receiving an organ transplant of covid-infected lungs

And the surgeon who did the transplant caught covid too!

[Quote]Doctors say a woman in Michigan contracted Covid-19 and died last fall two months after receiving a tainted double-lung transplant from a donor who turned out to harbor the virus that causes the disease — despite showing no signs of illness and initially testing negative.

[Quote]Officials at the University of Michigan Medical School suggested it may be the first proven case of Covid-19 in the U.S. in which the virus was transmitted via an organ transplant. A surgeon who handled the donor lungs was also infected with the virus and fell ill but later recovered.

[Quote]The virus was transmitted when lungs from a woman from the Upper Midwest, who died after suffering a severe brain injury in a car accident, were transplanted into a woman with chronic obstructive lung disease at University Hospital in Ann Arbor. The nose and throat samples routinely collected from both organ donors and recipients tested negative for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.

[Quote]But doctors had kept a sample of fluid washed from deep within the donor lungs. When they tested that fluid, it was positive for the virus. Four days after the transplant, the surgeon who handled the donor lungs and performed the surgery tested positive, too. Genetic screening revealed that the transplant recipient and the surgeon had been infected by the donor

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by Anonymousreply 4February 22, 2021 12:15 PM

Whoops! Sorry about that!

by Anonymousreply 1February 22, 2021 2:43 AM

wow, thats horrible

by Anonymousreply 2February 22, 2021 4:13 AM

David Cronenberg just came.

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by Anonymousreply 3February 22, 2021 4:24 AM

That’s so sad.

by Anonymousreply 4February 22, 2021 12:15 PM
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