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Transfusion May Be Source Of West Nile Case Case Would Be First Of Its Kind

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/sh/health/stories/health-164334220020831-170825.html

MIAMI -- Health officials are investigating the possibility that a Florida man contracted West Nile virus from an organ transplant or a blood transfusion.

If either is the case, it would be a first, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC's Web site says every case of West Nile virus in the United States has come from contact with a mosquito.

The Miami-area man in question hasn't been identified. Miami-Dade health officials don't believe he was infected by a mosquito. They say the 63-year-old man, who's been in the hospital, is unlikely to have come in contact with mosquitoes in his daily activities..

Officials say the man recently had a heart transplant from a Georgia donor.

"Health officials are investigating the possibility that a Florida man contracted West Nile virus from an organ transplant or a blood transfusion."

Thanks for the post. I was looking for this article and while looking, I found an article about an English man who got malaria from a mosquito that had flown in on a jet liner, lol. (stranger and stranger)