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Byline: M.A.J. McKenna
Sep. 2--Health officials investigating the link between an organ donor and four recipients who may have contracted West Nile virus focused Sunday on the Atlanta area, where one patient died last week, another remains hospitalized and other patients could have received possibly tainted blood.
The organ donor, who died Aug. 1 after a car accident, received blood from several different donors during emergency room treatment. Two-thirds of the donors have been identified, health officials said Sunday.
Some blood and processed blood products from those donors remain in blood banks and are being sought so they can be held from circulation, said Dr. Susan Lance-Parker of the Georgia Division of Public Health.
"We're working with the blood bank to find out where all of the products went and whether or not they were transfused" into patients, she said. "Some of them have been transfused."
It's also possible that the organ donor had been infected with West Nile virus…
Source: HighBeam Research, West Nile Focus Is Now on Atlanta Blood Bank.