Via National Post, please read the whole article, excerpt :
" Surgeons transplanting two new lungs in a life-saving operation on an Edmonton man faced an unprecedented complication last fall when they discovered the organs they had just transferred were infected with H1N1 flu virus, a new report has revealed.
Michael Cunningham appears to be the first double-lung transplant patient in the world to have contracted the pandemic virus as he underwent the complex procedure, his doctors say.
Patients with underlying breathing problems face the greatest risk from the swine flu, and the infection presented a major challenge for the medical team."
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