Over 90% of Human Rabies Cases in The US Aren't Detected, Study Finds
the story is that they found a person got rabies from an organ transplant. And the donor was never diagnosed as dying of rabies.
I remember a similar case in Texas where we had once sent a person for a heart transplant.
Records show it was only the fourth time in US history that an organ transplant procedure had transmitted the rabies virus (Lyssavirus rabies) from an initially undiagnosed donor. But what if these kinds of records are wrong?
Even though the Michigan patient fatality represents only the fourth known case of a transplanted fatal rabies infection – the first such instance occurring in 1978 – given how rare organ donation itself is, something just doesn't add up.
if you extrapolate the data to the general population it might suggest hundreds of cases are missed.
