2 Kentucky Patients Test Positive for Hep C Following Kidney Transplants

In March 2011, three organs (two kidneys and the liver) from a deceased donor were transplanted into three recipients at a Kentucky hospital, two of whom later tested positive for hepatitis C, according to an analysis by the CDC.

Read the full report in Becker's Hospital Review on the Kentucky organ transplantation.

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