A recipient of a kidney transplant presented a medical mystery when he died from rabies in January 2025 only weeks after his surgery in an Ohio hospital, despite having had no documented contact with the disease.
The donor in this case, an Idaho man, had been found unresponsive after a presumed cardiac arrest in early December 2024, around five weeks after being scratched by a skunk in late October.
That’s why I was asking questions. Found, presumed etc. Did they not follow back up or was the guy dead for a while in that 5 week period or was he not experiencing rabies symptoms? Was rabies aquired after he died?
Rabies tends to come with encephalitis was that not noted anywhere?
I can’t find it anywhere but how did the donor die?
Right there in the article.
That’s why I was asking questions. Found, presumed etc. Did they not follow back up or was the guy dead for a while in that 5 week period or was he not experiencing rabies symptoms? Was rabies aquired after he died?
Rabies tends to come with encephalitis was that not noted anywhere?
rabies wouldn’t be something they ordinary test for.
Nope. Especially if there were no other symptoms associated with the victim’s passing.