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3 Fatal Cases of Rabies Are Linked to Ill Donor
NY Times ^
| July 2, 2004
| LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
Posted on 07/01/2004 9:20:55 PM PDT by neverdem
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:20:55 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: fourdeuce82d; El Gato; JudyB1938; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; farmfriend; ...
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:22:09 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: neverdem
I heard about this on the radio. Not good at all...
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:23:28 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: neverdem
"...donor, a man, [was] complaining of confusion..."
Seems to me like we are completely lost: this symptom applies both to me and to everyone I know...
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:24:50 PM PDT
by
GSlob
To: neverdem
Here in Dallas, on WFAA, the doctors said the donor was likely bitten by a bat, but didn't tell anybody.
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:25:34 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
(There's no problem on the inside of a kid that the outside of a dog can't cure.)
To: neverdem
"Parts is parts" (if you're lucky).
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:26:14 PM PDT
by
1066AD
To: neverdem
Boy, talk about sadly unlucky! I wonder what the odds would be -- An MD and not reporting.
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:32:25 PM PDT
by
JimSEA
( "More Bush, Less Taxes.")
To: neverdem
A year can pass from when a person is bitten by a rabid animal or exposed to a bat before rabies develops. I did not know this.
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:38:19 PM PDT
by
stands2reason
(Everyone's a self-made man -- but only the successful are willing to admit it.)
To: neverdem
What are the testing standards set forth by the American Association of Tissue Banks relating to rabies? Any blood test at this stage should make it evident the tissue is useless, right?
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:41:14 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
To: stands2reason
A year can pass from when a person is bitten by a rabid animal or exposed to a bat before rabies develops. Yes this if very true. But usually it shows up within 2 months. I take rabies shots (and have for 16 years) and the 1st time I was bitten by a rabid bat I got lots of info about rabies pretty quickly. Usually you have a month to get the shots and a month to build imunity if not.... you are dead. That is just how it is. I tell the kids ... don't touch bats because rabies is quicker and deadlier than AIDS.
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:50:15 PM PDT
by
The Bat Lady
(Lighting the fires of Liberty, one heart at a time!)
To: neverdem
The info about transmission via saliva, does that apply to any ambulance chasers starting to drool after reading about the 3 plantiff, er, uh, victim's families?
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:52:56 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good" HRC 6/28/2004)
To: neverdem
As a liver transplant recipient(1-6-02) ,this is very sad.This is not the way it's supposed to work.
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:53:21 PM PDT
by
rewrite
To: The Bat Lady
...rabies is quicker and deadlier than AIDSIt's even deadlier than Ebola.
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posted on
07/01/2004 9:57:23 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: endthematrix
What are the testing standards set forth by the American Association of Tissue Banks relating to rabies? Any blood test at this stage should make it evident the tissue is useless, right? I don't do transplants and don't have a clue.
The article states, "Federal officials are expected to review the findings to determine whether to add rabies to the routine tests for all organ donors. Donors are now tested for H.I.V., hepatitis B and C, HTLV-1, cytomegalovirus and syphilis."
HTLV-1 is HIV.
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:05:20 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: rewrite
This is not the way it's supposed to work. This is how the world works. Civilian airplanes were not supposed to be guided missiles. Good luck with your meds.
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:08:27 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: JimSEA
So health officials at the disease control centers and in four states, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, are seeking to identify quickly anyone who had contact with the four patients to determine who needs immunizations. People exposed to patients' saliva are those most likely to need treatment. "An MD not and reporting."
I don't follow.
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:14:45 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: rewrite
Had me pretty rattled, too, when I read it. I'm a double lung recipient (7/11/02). You know there are risks, but this is one I never would have considered.
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:16:02 PM PDT
by
Az. Mike
To: neverdem
This isn't the first time of human to human rabies transmission. Eye and skin grafts have transfered rabies. The CDC has some outdated 80's stuff and they reference standards performed via AATB. Also, who may have done the service might exceed those standards. If you test for HIV some anomaly should have come up, prior to death (untimely) his counts should have been all over and a review been made. He was misdiagnosed plain and simple. Lawsuit anyone?
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:20:17 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
To: neverdem; endthematrix; All
HTLV-1 is HIV NOT.
I looked for HIV at first in that sentence and didn't see it.
IIRC, HTLV-3 is what we now call HIV.
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:23:12 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: neverdem; JimSEA
That is funny that a "serious" tone on saliva is made on rabies. I was learned that rabies virus is just as adaptable as HIV. HIV saliva transmission is poo-pooed as trivial in most conversations...unless you receive it.
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posted on
07/01/2004 10:24:24 PM PDT
by
endthematrix
(To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
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