4 get AIDS virus from organ donor
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-11-14 11:25
Newman said Tuesday that officials were checking to see if there were any other similar cases before 1994.
Since the 1985 case, in which AIDS killed three patients who'd received organs from a Virginia man, there have been more than 400,000 organ transplants in the US without a reported case of transmission through organs.
Millis said he thinks the process can be improved but may never be completely failproof.
"The organ supply is extraordinarily safe, but this has demonstrated that it's not 100 percent safe and it is never going to be 100 percent safe, at least with technology we have today," Millis said.
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