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Transplant patient got AIDS from new kidney (Gay kidney doner - Outrage!)
AP via Yahoo! News ^ | 3-20-11 | AP via Yahoo! News

Posted on 03/20/2011 8:42:35 PM PDT by wac3rd

A transplant patient contracted AIDS from the kidney of a living donor, in the first documented case of its kind in the U.S. since screening for HIV began in the mid-1980s.

It turns out the donor had unprotected gay sex in the 11 weeks between the time he tested negative and the time the surgery took place in 2009.

In a report Thursday on the New York City case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that organ donors have repeat HIV tests a week before surgery.

"The most sensitive test needs to be done as close as possible to the time of transplant," said Dr. Colin Shepard, who oversees tracking of HIV cases for the New York City Health Department.

The CDC also said would-be organ donors should be told to avoid behavior that can increase their chances of infection.

Living organ donors in the U.S. are routinely tested for infectious diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. But the organization that oversees organ transplants in the U.S. does not have an explicit policy on when such screening should be done. That's left up to transplant centers.

Because of patient confidentiality, health officials released few details about the donor, recipient, their relationship or the hospital where the transplant took place, except to say that it is in New York.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Georgia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aids; colinshepard; homosexualagenda; kidney; newyorkcity; organtransplants; transplant
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To: wac3rd

I would call this Murder. Manslaughter at the least.


101 posted on 03/21/2011 8:22:03 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: drellberg
So I will ask you, as well, why the vitriol against me?

I think if you read my postings you will not find an attack against you. If there was any attack upon anything it was upon the terminology and I expounded upon that to make clear my intent.

This is a contentious issue. The promotion of homosexual sex normalcy I would suggest is being advanced against the will of the people and at the expense of many institutions that are a foundation and constitute the very essence of an ordered society and our country. This unjust absurdity is only being advanced by lies and judicial fiat. I think people are quite angry at this point...

102 posted on 03/21/2011 8:37:27 PM PDT by DBeers (†)
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