LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - A Michigan man died of rabies months after receiving a transplanted kidney from someone who unknowingly had contracted the disease, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In a report released last week, the CDC says a Michigan man received a left kidney transplant from an Idaho donor at a hospital in Ohio in December 2024. About five weeks later, the man began experiencing tremors, lower extremity weakness, confusion and urinary incontinence, according to the report.

A week after symptom onset, the man, was hospitalized with fever, hydrophobia, difficulty swallowing and autonomic instability. On the second day of hospitalization he had to be placed on a ventilator.

Two days later, hospital staff contacted the Ohio Department o

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