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Patient dies of rabies acquired from transplanted kidney

By Séamus Bellamy

Mar 29, 2025
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Rabies / lyssavirus

One of the greatest gifts any person can give another is one of their internal organs. Whether it happens after death or, as a living gesture of love for another human being, it's a gesture of enormous life-giving generosity. Unless the donated organ happens to be infested with rabies.

According to Michigan-based television station WTO…

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