| pet rodents and fatal lymphocytic choriomeningitis in transplant patients. | in april 2005, 4 transplant recipients became ill after receiving organs infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (lcmv); 3 subsequently died. all organs came from a donor who had been exposed to a hamster infected with lcmv. the hamster was traced back through a rhode island pet store to a distribution center in ohio, and more lcmv-infected hamsters were discovered in both. rodents from the ohio facility and its parent facility in arkansas were tested for the same lcmv strain as the 1 i ... | 2007 | 17553250 |