The article does not state that the donor knew that he was HIV positive, and he may have been negative when he filled out his paperwork to be a donor. His corpse tested HIV negative.
If there was any premeditation involved here, the "donor" was truly demonic
He filled out paperwork in which he admitted to being gay and engaging in high risk gay sex. Why on earth would he do that if he wanted to infect heterosexuals with the organs from his corpse?
It sounds like the lab might have screwed up the HIV test on the corpse, and somebody forgot to mention that the donor was high risk. That's probably all this story is about. Human error as usual.
Yet another vile thread.
“He filled out paperwork in which he admitted to being gay and engaging in high risk gay sex. Why on earth would he do that if he wanted to infect heterosexuals with the organs from his corpse?”
Yes, he could just as easily not bothered to disclose. At least he was forthright about it.
“It sounds like the lab might have screwed up the HIV test on the corpse, and somebody forgot to mention that the donor was high risk. That’s probably all this story is about. Human error as usual.”
When I first heard of this story on Wednesday, it was mentioned that the organs were tested for HIV and Hep C and showed that they were negative. It was surmised after the infections manifest themselves in the recipients, that the HIV/HEP C infection in the donor had occurred too recently to be detected by the standard testing procedure. Another test that is more accurate is available, but it is not routinely done because, among other reasons, it costs considerably more. However, something tells me that test will now become the routine. Frankly, when something as extreme as a transplant is being done, I don’t know why they can’t do both tests just as a back up.
Most mistakes in the hospital resulting in death or unnecessary harm to the patient have been the result of at least two concurrent errors in procedure.