The state’s Ministry of Health said on Wednesday that a resident of Michigan had a transplant in December died after he was infected with rabies from the new device.
“An investigation into public health decided that they had contracted rabies through the cultivated organs,” Lin Sotfin, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, said in a statement.
The administration said that the patient received a transplant in a hospital in Ohio in December, then died in January. The statement did not include information about the identity of the recipient or the type planted member. She said the donor was not residing in Michigan or Ohio.
Sotfin said that Michigan and Ouhyu’s health departments “worked closely” with the centers of control and prevention of diseases and prevent them in investigating the death of the patient. Code disease laboratory at the Center for Control of Diagnostic Diseases confirmed.
The statement added: “Health officials worked together to ensure the evaluation of people, including health care providers, who were in contact with the individual in Michigan because of their exposure to the treatment of rabies.” “Preventive care was provided after exposure, if appropriate.”
The administration refused to provide NBC news with additional information. The Ohio and CDC health department did not respond to the suspension requests.
Rabbish disease can spread to humans if they come into contact with saliva or blood from infected animals, such as bat, raccoon, scratching or stray dogs. It is not always clear that a person has contracted with rabies, because the initial symptoms are similar to those in the influenza, including fever, headache and nausea. As the disease progresses, patients have difficulty swallowing, excessive saliva and hallucinations.
If a person does not ask for medical care quickly after being scratched or bitten by an animal that is likely to be infected, the dog’s disease is fatal. Before 1960, several hundred people of people have died every year, but the annual number has shrunk to less than 10 in recent years, According to the center of control and protecting it.
Potential donors in the United States are examined for viruses, bacteria and other infections; However, rabies are not among those tests, partly because its test is long and because the infection is very rare in people.
The patient who received kidney transplant in 2013 died similarly after contracting rabies through the organ. It was found that the donor died of rabies in Florida, but the cause of death was discovered only after the investigation of the recipient’s death. Three other patients also received donor members.
In 2004, three recipients died of organ transplants from rabies after receiving members of an infected donor in Arkansas.