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Infected Body Parts
The use of infected body parts used in transplantation hit home for several transplant recipients recently, according to an attorney who has experience in such cases. Two women in Oklahoma who have recently had transplants received a notice from the Food and Drug Administration following the arrest of four people in New York for illegally procuring and selling body parts.
The notice made no mention of the body parts from which their transplanted tissue was taken being infected.
Usually donated tissue is under the protection of guidelines set up by the FDA and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. However, since these body parts were stolen, according to federal prosecutors, there may be some risk of infection.
When proper procedures are not followed no medical precautions are taken to ensure that tissue from the body parts used for transplantation is no infected. Infectious diseases which are possible from unregulated tissue transplants include HIV, hepatitis, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis.
Transplanting body part tissues, including muscle, skin and bone, is common in the United States; and selling implantable tissue from body parts is legal, as long as the right conditions are met to make sure it is not infected.
Anyone receiving a notice from the FDA concerning this issue may want to contact legal counsel.
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