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Woman Develops Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant
An anonymous reader writes "A woman in need of a lung transplant got her new lungs from someone with a peanut allergy who died of anaphylactic shock. Seven months after the surgery, the woman was at an organ transplant support group when she ate a peanut butter cookie and had a violent allergic reaction. So how had the woman's new lungs brought along a peanut allergy? A blog post dives into the medical details and explains that immune cells in the donated lungs couldn't have lived in the new body for long enough to cause the reaction... however, if they encountered an allergen (i.e. something peanuty) shortly after being transplanted, they could have trained the woman's native immune cells to respond."
Where do you find these pictures? Did somebody get paid to go buy a container of peanuts and make that? Idle indeed...
SIG: HUP
Sue the donor's estate
For example, you get a bone marrow transplant and your blood type will change to that of the donor. Maybe they should start transplanting those rare blood-types to blood bank volunteers. I know a few homeless guys that would love to get a higher premium for their donation.
Common Sense isn't as Common as people think...
Reuse the Gates Borg image. I always thought he was nuts and he does cause a bad reaction in some people.
quoting a movie. i don't think it's as funny as you think it is.