A Michigan resident has died after contracting rabies through a transplanted organ, health officials have confirmed. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE, the Michigan Department of Health and Human ...
A man has died of rabies after receiving a kidney transplant from a donor who is believed to have contracted the virus when he was scratched by a skunk. The unprecedented chain of infection has been ...
Cases of rabies are rising in areas where the virus was once eradicated, and the disease is fatal if not treated quickly after exposure ...
Doctors warn that rabies remains almost always fatal once symptoms appear—but prompt treatment can prevent the disease ...
A Michigan resident who received a transplant in December died after having been infected with rabies from the new organ, the state health department said Wednesday. "A public health investigation ...