Study: Organ donor with rabies had 2 raccoon bites

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 15:33 in Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Air Force recruit whose organs were donated to four patients including a kidney recipient who died of rabies had at least two untreated raccoon bites several months before he became sick, and tests confirm his rabies-infected kidney caused the recipient's disease, according to a medical journal report....

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