[sharkhawk]

Four transplant recipients in Chicago contracted HIV from a high-risk organ donor whose infection went undetected in what hospital officials say is the first documented case of the virus being transmitted by organ donation in the U.S. in more than 20 years....

A screening questionnaire determined that the organ donor had engaged in high-risk behavior...

But tests for HIV, hepatitis and other conditions came back negative, most likely because the donor had acquired the infections in the last three weeks before death...

[sharkhawk]

10 to 1 on what the risky behavior was?

[JoanVarga]

Oh, pffftt! Nothing to see here. Move along before you're all called a buncha homophobes and bigots.

/sarcasm

-Joan

[krb]

A screening questionnaire determined that the organ donor had engaged in high-risk behavior...

When did he fill out the questionnaire?

[Enterprise]

Hillary Care!

[Esther Ruth]

The transplants occurred in January at three Chicago hospitals, but the patients did not learn until the last two weeks that they were infected with HIV and the virus for hepatitis C. One doctor said the news was “devastating” to the patients.

Organs came from Gift of Hope Organ Procurement from Elmhurst - to Northwestern, Uof Chicago and Rush

[Loud Mime]

this reminds me of a Law and Order show where a MAN died of ovarian cancer.....from a transplant.

It was one hell of a show.

[Alice in Wonderland]

About 20 years ago, my best friend lost both her teenage sons (her only children) to AIDS. Both boys were hemophiliacs and had received tainted blood transfusions.

[Dengar01]

I just read this in the Trib. I love how they only say the donor engaged in "high risk behavior". Why the hell would they let someone involved in that behavior donate an organ? I can't donate blood because I have allergies.

But God forbid you tell one of them they can't donate their tainted organs and you'll have the ACLU on you.

[Grizzled Bear]

And we have the homosexual activists demanding “The Right” to donate blood.