A tragic series of events led to a fatal case of transplant-related rabies earlier this year. Health officials announced Thursday that an organ recipient who underwent transplant surgery in Ohio died ...

A Michigan man died of rabies he contracted after receiving a kidney transplant from a donor who became infected — and later died — while rescuing a kitten from a rabid skunk, according to health ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan man died after receiving a kidney transplant from a donor who had undiagnosed rabies, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A Michigan man has died of rabies weeks after receiving a kidney transplant at an Ohio hospital, according to a new CDC report. The donor — an Idaho resident — had been scratched by a skunk while ...

A Michigan man died of rabies after receiving a donor kidney from a man who was infected with the disease The donor, who had died of rabies weeks before, was infected by a skunk Kidneys are screened ...

Rabies is rare in the United States, but when it happens, it can be extremely serious. Recently, a tragic case from Michigan has highlighted how unpredictable the virus can be. A man who received a ...

The unidentified patient received the Idaho donor’s left kidney during a December 2024 transplant in Ohio — only to suffer a fever, tremors, weakness, confusion, difficulty swallowing, fear of water, ...

LANSING, Mich. (WILX/Gray News) — A Michigan man died of rabies months after receiving a transplanted kidney from someone who unknowingly had contracted the disease from a skunk, according to a report ...

After doctors began suspecting rabies in the transplant recipient, officials began investigating the Idaho donor as the possible infection source. Interviews with the donor’s family added details that ...