A person in Michigan recently died after receiving a kidney transplant that had been infected with rabies virus, illustrated here. . | Credit: KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images In an ...

A Michigan resident died in January 2025 after contracting rabies from a kidney transplant received in Ohio. The CDC confirmed the donor had been exposed to a rabid animal but showed no ...

"In addition to the organ donor’s kidney ... Center died in January 2025 of rabies," the statement read. "That patient underwent a deceased donor organ transplant in late 2024 at UTMC.

This is not the first time rabies has been spread through organ donation, however. In 2013, a kidney transplant patient died after getting an organ from a donor who later was found to have died of ...

fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney transplant died from ...

fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney transplant died from ...

Kaul recalled a case from more than 10 years ago where the recipient of a kidney developed rabies almost a year-and-a-half after the transplant, much to the surprise of everyone. The recipient was ...

According to the CDC, fewer than 10 people die annually from rabies in the U.S. And it happening due to organ transplants is very rare, but not unheard of; in 2013, a patient who received a kidney ...