Besides the organ recipients, about 50 patients received tissue from the man.

There was no way to prevent infection among the organ recipients.

In fact, the organ recipients have achieved incredible benefits that might not otherwise be available.

The case becomes interesting when one of the organ recipients kills someone in a car accident and doesn't have insurance.

And some potential organ recipients have worried about striking a donor deal with a murderer.

Officials gave little information about the Bronx donor or the organ recipients, to safeguard their privacy.

This method allows all organ recipients to get a transplant even if their living donor is not a match to them.

But those people could still infect organ recipients.

Even worse, Xavier knew that if the League had known the truth all along many organ recipients probably would still have made the same choice.

Three of the four organ recipients in this investigation developed encephalitis approximately 8-17 days following transplant surgery.

Indeed, she said that potential donors are treated especially carefully, to protect their lives and the lives of future organ recipients.

Their coordinators act as the link between organ donations and organ recipients.

Some countries are associated within international organisations like Eurotransplant in order to increase the supply of appropriate donor organs and the organ recipients.

D17 Hopeful organ recipients live in a cluster of garden apartments in Houston.

And the plan is generating intense debate among transplant surgeons, organ recipients and families of past donors.

About 10 percent of organ recipients reject the transplant within the first year: imagine the horror of losing your face not once, but twice.

The wait times for organ transplants for organ recipients in China appear to be much lower than anywhere else.

Hence, some potential organ recipients from poor or uninsured families may well have existed last weekend but were simply not known to organ-sharing coordinators.

It is now known that deaths from suspected AIDS among the organ recipients first occurred in 1986.

The organ recipients - all patients at Dr. Shaw's hospital in Omaha - were filmed during the first year.

"We know that, on average, about a third of all organ recipients go outside their state of residence to get a transplant," Dr. Fox said.

Historically, approximately 10% of solid organ recipients treated with calcineurin inhibitors develop skin tumours and lymphoma after 70 months.

Despite these ordinances, it was estimated that 5% of all organ recipients engaged in commercial organ transplant in 2005.

Two of the organ recipients went home after surgery but returned when symptoms of encephalitis developed, Dr. Hughes said.

West Nile virus infection has been confirmed in three of the organ recipients; the fourth recipient has not yet been tested.