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A faster, more accurate HIV test would go a long way in reassuring patients, but there will never be a risk-free organ transplant. "Organ transplantation overall is very safe, but there always will be some chance of infectious disease transmission, and [the Chicago case] is one tragic example," says the CDC's Kuehnert. And with the number of donors still so much lower than needy recipients, it doesn't look like that difficult risk-benefit equation is going to change any time soon.

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  • Posted By: anotherday0 @ 11/27/2007 8:23:55 PM

    Yes. I agree that screening techniques for "high risk" donors should take this into consideration along with concerns about STDs. Few of members at famous STD dating site pozgroup.com know that they can not be a organ donor.

  • Posted By: Herbie2 @ 11/17/2007 10:22:56 AM

    There are more than one kind of "high risk" donors. I was told by the Red Cross seven years ago that I had to stop making blood donations, and that I could not be considered as an organ donor because I have cancer. Screening techniques for "high risk" donors should take this into consideration along with concerns about STDs.

  • Posted By: rosebudsex77 @ 11/16/2007 8:32:55 PM

    The truth duh!!!!!!!!!!! Anything else is bullsh??.

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