A Michigan man died of rabies less than two months after receiving a kidney transplant from a donor who fought a skunk, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

The man — whose identity was not made public by the agency — received a kidney transplant from an Idaho donor at an Ohio hospital in December 2024, and died in late January 2025, just 51 days after obtaining the organ, the CDC reported Thursday.

Five weeks after receiving the kidney transplant, the victim began experiencing “tremors, lower extremity weakness, confusion, and urinary incontinence,” the federal agency explained.

By the sixth week, the man was hospitalized with “fever, hydrophobia, dysphagia, and autonomic instability,” and placed on a ventilator two days after being admitted to the medical faci

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