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The CDC reported Thursday that the organs and tissues taken from the body of a middle-aged man turned out to be Kentucky have been infected with the hepatitis c virus and cited four examples where the transplant recipient becomes infected with a virus.
The Donor died March 2011, two days after suffering a traumatic brain injury from an accident vehicle all terrain. At that time, his father reported that his son had intravenous drugs users, but then it became clear that the two did not have close contact over a year before the
Organs and tissues taken from his body that was tested before the transplant, but the tests were originally thought to be negative. Only after the two recipients become infected, six months after their transplants, found that one of the tests have already recorded negative when in fact the network had tested positive for the hepatitis C virus.