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KHN reported. The case is an anomaly in some 40,000 transplants last year. The donor had shown no signs of COVID-19 and initially tested negative, KHN reported. A surgeon who handled the lungs was also infected. The surgeon became ill, but recovered. The case -- though isolated -- has prompted calls for more thorough testing of lung transplant donors, said Daniel Kaul, MD, director of Michigan Medicine's transplant infectious disease service, KHN reported. That includes samples taken from deep within lungs, and from the nose and throat. "We would absolutely not have used the lungs if we...

A Michigan woman contracted COVID-19 from the lungs she received during a transplant and died two months later.

Loading the player... A Michigan woman who received a double lung transplant died two months after contracting COVID-19. It turned out that the donor had coronavirus, doctors say.  The virus was transmitted when lungs from a woman who died from injuries suffered in a car accident, were transplanted into a woman with chronic obstructive lung disease last fall, according to PEOPLE. The procedure was conducted at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, where a surgeon who handled the lungs was also infected but later recovered. The donor and recipient initially tested negative for the virus, but...

Surgeon's warning after recipient in the US contracted deadly coronavirus from donor's infected lungs.

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