Guess admitting to IV drug use and homosexual behavior are not enough to get your organs refused.
The “donor” had high risk lifestyle issues ( per Brit Hume tonight on the Fox News Report) and died three weeks after the testing was done, thus his/her organs were infected at that time.
That is why my old Family physician (My Dad) always gave blood to my family members prior to surgery and we have kept this ensible tradition alive.
Nine percent of donors are either men buggering men or heroin/meth addicts???? Holy Mother of God!
Welcome to paradox number 8,927,371 in the continuing series emanating from the way in which the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been handled as a matter of public heath policy.
The indication that 9% of organ donors fit the high risk profile (gay sex, IV drug use, etc.) was rather shocking. In addition to that being a risk I had assumed was effectively screened - it give one pause to consider why someone who engaged in that behavior would want to be an organ donor. In this particular case - it had to be someone who engaged in risky behavior in a relatively short time period before death. That's downright mean.
Since 1985 when three people died of AIDS after receiving infected organs from a man in Virginia, there have been more than 400,000 transplants in the U.S., without a 4 reported cases of transmission.
Not likely to be real comforting to the unlucky 4, and hardly six-sigma quality controls.
Doc : I have good news, and I have bad news,
Pt - Go ahead
Doc - We finally found a perfect match for a replacement heart for you.
Pt - My goodness, that is good news indeed. Eeerrr - what’s the bad news?
Doc - The donor is Freddy Mercury......
(ya, I know, Freddy *is* dead)