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HISTORIC: Legionnaires' First Transplant Patients– 1 Killed In PA, CDC HISTORIC: Legionnaires' First Transplant Patients– 1 Killed In PA, CDC
Historic: Legionnaires' First Transplant Patients– 1 Killed In PA, CDC Pennsylvania is making history – for the wrong reason – with the first known cases of Legionnaires' disease in organ donations, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A bacteria that can cause the deadly lung disease – commonly known as Legionnaires' – has been found in two Pennsylvania lung transplant patients. The transplants were given by a single donor in Philadelphia in May 2022, according to a CDC release on Friday, Sept. 15.  The Pennsylvania Department of Health was notified in July 2022 and the patients learned they had the disease in June.  …

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by Jillian Pikora