US Man Dies From Rabies After Receiving Infected Kidney
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.
I'm sure they charged him $85,000* for the privilage as well.
Also the person who tried saving a kitten from a skunk is a fucking idiot you should always get a rabies shot if a wild and in this case vicious animal scratches you.
They also should have tested for that it was disclosed to the organ donation team by the family and they didn't do it because they said "its rare in humans". Fucking idiots.
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*also as pointed out by another user down below the cost of a kidney transplant in the USA is now around the $500,000 mark. Idk if that's without insurance or with it but either way that's insane and shameful that we put this burden on people going through this.
They also should have tested for that
Hey safety standards totally undermine profits, why do you hate America? 😋
I’m sure they charged him $85,000 for the privilage as well.
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Average cost of kidney transplant in 2025 is $446,800.
Jesus. Yeah I shouldn't be surprised, they will take everything you have and more than you can make in a lifetime. I edited the original comment to reflect that number.
Where are you getting that the family disclose that to the organ donation team? That's not in the article.
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I've seen this episode of scrubs.
I hope Perry can forgive himself
Where do you think we are?
So US medical is expensive, but not up to modern standards?
What a way to die
hey, there was a CSI episode like that!
And Scrubs.
I can't find it anywhere but how did the donor die?
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.
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?
That must have ruined someone's lunch.