Four trans­plant patients in Chicago have con­tracted HIV from the organ donor. It is alleged to be the first case of such trans­mis­sion in the U.S. in 13 years. Ini­tial tests on the donor for HIV, hepati­tis and other con­di­tions came back neg­a­tive, most likely because the donor had acquired the infec­tions in the last three weeks before death. Per­sonal details about the donor were not released [to the recip­i­ents or their doc­tors] by med­ical offi­cial [sic] offi­cials, who cited pri­vacy laws. Empha­sis added. The screen­ing process has, granted, been (appar­ently) suc­cess­ful in pre­vent­ing tis­sue trans­plant trans­mis­sion of HIV for 13 years. And for [ . . . ]

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