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Title: Organ Donors Increasingly Deemed High Risk for HIV, Hep B & C Transmission
Post by: Hep Editors on April 05, 2019, 10:46:25 am

The opioid epidemic is fueling an increase in the proportion of deceased organ donors categorized as posing a high risk of transmitting HIV or hepatitis B or C viruses (HBV/HCV) to a transplant recipient. Such individuals are known as increased risk donors (IRDs), as opposed to standard risk donors (SRDs).

Publishing their findings in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) researchers analyzed 2010 to 2017 data reported to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

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