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Unknown Virus Takes the Life of Three Transplant Patients
Three people have died after receiving organ transplants from a single donor which has puzzled the medical community in Australia. Upon examination of tissue samples the cause of death was pinned to one type of virus found in the victims' bodies.
The virus was traced in the bodies of three patients from Melbourne who died in the few weeks following the transplant of organs from a 57 year old brain dead patient. According to experts, the virus closely resembled the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, which caused many transplant patients to die in the United States.
