Hepatitis Linked To KY Donor

{Atlanta, Georgia}...According to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, organs and tissue from a Kentucky donor have apparently caused three patients to test positive for hepatitis C virus infection. Two of the patients received kidney transplants at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, and a child in Massachusetts received tissue while being treated at Children's Hospital Boston. A man who received a liver from the same donor had been diagnosed with hepatitis C before receiving his transplant. Hepatitis C, transmitted by blood and body fluids, can result in liver failure and liver cancer.