PRO/AH/EDR> LCMV, transplant recipients, fatal – Australia: 2007

Meningitis — Worldwide/Unknown
A court has found 3 women in Australia died within a month of receiving transplanted organs from the same donor after the man passed on a rare mouse-borne virus. A colonial inquiry into the deaths of a 44-year-old woman, a 63-year-old woman, and a 64-year-old woman has prompted calls to improve communication between hospitals and medical staff. The 3 women received the organs from the same donor, a 57-year-old man, but all died within 6 days of each other — and within a month of the