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four transplant recipients in Chicago contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases in more than a decade of the virus being spread by organ transplants
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007

Open quoteThere is always a drive toward better testing, but if it leads to more organ wastage, we'll probably hurt more people than we help. Close quote

  • DR. ROBERT BROWN
  • director of the liver transplant program at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia, after four transplant recipients in Chicago contracted H.I.V. from an organ donor, the first known cases in more than a decade of the virus being spread by organ transplants
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