Patient zero: The December transplant
Patient Zero tells the stories of disease outbreaks: where they begin and why they happen.
Three transplant patients died within a week of each other in Melbourne in December 2006 and alarm bells started ringing. One of the patients was Karen. When she got a phone call from the hospital offering her a kidney transplant, it seemed like a lucky break. But things didn't go according to plan. Olivia Willis tells the story of how doctors discovered that one donor had transmitted a mystery virus to these patients. These tragic cases changed the way that transplantation was done in Australia.
Produced by James Bullen, Cheyne Anderson and Joel Werner of ABC
(Picture: TEM of Arenavirus, Credit: Callista Images/Getty Images)
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