LANSING, Mich. ( WILX /Gray News) — A Michigan man died of rabies months after receiving a transplanted kidney from someone who unknowingly had contracted the disease from a skunk, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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In a report released last week , the CDC said a Michigan man received a kidney from an Idaho donor at a hospital in Ohio in December 2024.

About five weeks later, the recipient began experiencing tremors, lower extremity weakness, confusion and urinary incontinence, according to the report.

A week after symptom onset, the man was hospitalized with fever, hydrophobia (fear of water, a symptom of rabies), difficulty swallowing and autonomic instability. On the second day of hospitalization, he was placed o

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