AMERICAN morning with CNN, Paula Zahn
Local authorities on the Centers for Disease Control, which could be the first person to person transmission of West Nile Virus. Bodies of a woman, Georgia, died in a car accident in the last month were donated to four patients. Everything has been ill and he died.
Our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen, in the centre of CNN this morning to explain why this case is not cut and dry, and they still have a lot more questions.
Elizabeth - Hello.
ELIZABETH COHEN, a correspondent for CNN MEDICAL: Good morning, Daryn.
Daryn, there are a number of questions this morning. The CDC is working, how we speak, that this number.
Until a few days ago, she thought that the only way that people really have exasperated West Nile was mosquitoes. But now it seems that you said that the possibility of humans.
Let me explain what happened. This is a woman, who died in a car accident in Georgia. We have here, as victims. He was involved in an accident, went to the hospital. After death, his family donated his organs to four people - the heart, kidneys and lungs.
Well, the first person they donated developed encephalitis, and then died.
The second person, whether given encephalitis. You have selected laboratory tests and found that this person had West Nile disease or something equivalent.
Well, the first person died on the autopsy report showed that it was also in line with the West Nile.
The third person developed encephalitis, and they are now doing laboratory tests to try to discover how this person has received encephalitis.
The fourth person develops a slight fever. They are also now try to find out what happened exactly.
Well, as terrible, this story is that for these four persons, if yes, women had the accident took place West Nile virus from a mosquito bite, then history is thus entirely doing here. What happens is that her organs donated for the four persons. These four people are obviously in a very difficult situation, but the situation ends with these four.
But there is another scenario, is the great challenge for the CDC, when it comes to true. And let you talk a little about the latter, because it can be a bit confusing.
The woman, had the accident, and donated organs, she had numerous blood transfusions, before she died. Indeed, 37 different people donated blood for him.
The question is: Who has 37 people to donate? They may be given to many other people, before finally discovered that the blood, potentially, has problems with him.
And yes, now that the CDC has to do is go back and find another fact, these 37 people to donate? If one of these 37 people have West Nile Virus, which is, as car accident victims got it?
It is a very difficult situation. The CDC has a lot of detective work, they need to do at this time, and it is - it, of course, leads to the question, finally, gee, why not screen people, if people go on blood donation?
And yesterday, I spoke with Dr. James Hughes, is the head of infectious diseases for the CDC, and I asked him this question.
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