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CDC urges more viral testing for donated organs

In 1985, with the AIDS crisis in full swing, the US Centers for Disease Control (as the agency was called at the time) recommended that all blood and organs donated in the country be tested for HIV. But because the virus can lurk in cells for up to six months before detection, in 1994 the CDC (now with ‘Prevention’ tacked on to its name) added additional guidelines to help clinicians identify those organ donors at high-risk for infection that merit further screening. 

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