The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determined in a Friday report that a pair of transplanted lungs from a drowned donor in Pennsylvania likely caused Legionnaires’ disease in two recipients.
The two recipients are the first people whose Legionnaires’ disease infections were found to likely come from transplanted organs, the CDC said.Researchers determined the organs were the cause because of the donor’s exposure to the river water and because no other Legionnaires’ disease infections were reported at the hospital where the transplants were performed in the six months before and six months after the procedures.
In this case, the deceased donor, a man in his 30s, had drowned after having been submerged for over five minutes in a river. The Pennsylvania Department of Health began looking into the pair of infections after they were first reported in July 2022. The organ transplants took place in May 2022. The second recipient, a man in his 60s identified by the CDC as patient B, did not survive, ultimately dying in November 2022 after a mucous plug in his lungs caused respiratory failure, the CDC said.
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