Woman dies of rabies after lung transplant

A German woman has died of rabies weeks after receiving a lung from a donor who was later found to be infected with the disease, hospital officials in Hanover said today.

Two other patients who also received organs from the same 26-year-old donor remain in hospital in a critical condition in the cities of Marburg and Hannoversch Muenden. The donor showed no symptoms of rabies at the time of her death, health officials have said.