HAGERSTOWN, Md. (March 15, 2013)—The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday a rabies death in Maryland was caused by an organ transplant.
The CDC said three other people in Florida, Georgia and Illinois who got organs from the same donor are getting anti-rabies shots.
The donor died of rabies in Florida in 2011 after moving there from North Carolina.
The CDC says it's working with public health officials and health care facilities in all five states to identify people who were in close contact with the initial donor or the four organ recipients.
The CDC says those people might need rabies post-exposure treatment.
