Raccoon Bite Can Kill Three More People

Raccoon Bite Can Kill Three More People.
Rabies caused the dying of an instrument transplant recipient in Maryland, and three other patients who received organs from the same giver are getting anti-rabies shots, government health officials announced Friday. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the operation and Maryland health officials have confirmed that the patient who died in old March contracted rabies from the donated organ. The transplant was done more than a year ago.

The stretch of time the patient took to develop rabies symptoms was much longer than the typical rabies incubation years of one to three months, but is consistent with previous reports of long incubation periods, officials said in a statement. Both the element donor and the recipient had a raccoon-type rabies virus, according to the CDC's overture analysis of tissue samples. This type of rabies infects not only raccoons, but also other strange and domestic animals.

In the United States, only one other person is reported to have died from raccoon-type rabies virus. In 2011, the device donor became ill, was admitted to a hospital in Florida and then died. The donor's organs, including the kidneys, feeling and liver, were transplanted into recipients in Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Maryland.

At the set of the donor's death, rabies was not suspected as the cause and testing for rabies was not performed, the CDC said. Rabies was confirmed as the cause of the donor's decease only after the investigation into the Maryland patient's termination began. The donor moved to Florida from North Carolina shortly before fetching ill.

Officials are investigating how the donor may have been infected with rabies. The three other people who received organs from the provider are being evaluated by doctors and are receiving anti-rabies shots. The CDC is working with robustness officials and health care facilities in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland and North Carolina to put one's finger on people who were in close contact with the donor or the four organ recipients and might require treatment. The CDC said that, "all possible organ donors in the United States are screened and tested to recognize if the donor might present an infectious risk".

However, since rabies is now so rare in the United States, "laboratory testing is not routinely performed, as it is obstinate for doctors to confirm results in the impolite window of time they have to keep the organs viable for the recipient," the agency explained. Typically, only one to three cases of rabies are diagnosed each year in the United States. The complaint is most often transmitted through the nip of an infected animal problems solutions. In the United States, bats, raccoons, skunks and foxes are the most commonly reported berserk animals.