Two recipients of organ transplants are believed to have died from the donated organs getting infected with a deadly bacteria, according to the CDC.
“In June 2022, two cases of Legionnaires disease were reported in patients, each of whom had received a lung transplant from the same donor, who had drowned in a river … Evidence suggest that the source of infection was likely the transplanted lungs,” the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a Sept. 15 report. Legionnaires’ disease is a type of pneumonia caused by the bacteria Legionella.
