[jeremiah]

This is a tragedy for the families, but the statistical likelihood of contracting rabies from any source is virtually nonexistant.

[Born Conservative]

It is a tragedy, but I agree; it's extremely unlikely that this will happen again, or at least it will certainly not occur on a regular basis. It's just not practical to test every donor for rabies.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

Yes. Reason to shake their fists at God, if that will help them.......but no reason to do a single thing that will delay or prevent transplants for those to come. This is like a freak accident, unless it was known that the donor had rabies before organs were harvested.

[Lurker]

but the statistical likelihood of contracting rabies from any source is virtually nonexistant.

Apparently not nonexistant.

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[DB]

The real issue isn't screening of donor organs per se, it is harvesting organs from a person that just died of rabies. That the donor made it all the way through the health system to the point of death and no one determined the cause of his illness or death - and then harvested his organs without knowing what killed him is not okay.

[traviskicks]

ya, but it wouldn't surprise me if regulators destroyed the whole system in order to prevent this sort of thing.