Hospitals are bureaucracies and do things according to protocol no matter what. Unfortunately, common sense is not part of the process...especially when a protected minority and money are involved.
Possible. Just as likely that he checked the "organ donor" box on his driver's license 10-odd years ago, and the hospital screwed up and didn't bother to check to see what he died of...
I'm not excusing his behavior...'tis something that one less self-obsessed would have thought of, IMHO.
This makes no sense to me. What’s the point of being an organ donor if you’re HIV positive, anyway?? It’s like giving a hungry child a poison cookie.
He wasnt HIV positive and it takes time for someone to become HIV positive. He tested negative at the time of the dontation but had a homosexual hi risk lifestyle. So he was a not converting carrier. If he had lived longer he would have converted to HIV positive.
Sad.
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.