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Today's Globe: transplant infections, vaccine cases

Email|Link|Comments (0) Posted by Elizabeth Cooney May 13, 2008 06:56 AM

A 70-year-old woman has died, and a 57-year-old man is critically ill in a Boston hospital after each received a kidney from a donor infected with a hard-to-detect virus, health authorities said yesterday.

The parents of two 10-year-old boys who believe vaccines caused their sons to develop autism brought their case to federal court yesterday, arguing a mercury preservative in the shots caused a rare reaction.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.