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Longest Organ Donor Chain Links 60 People in US
from BBC News Online
The world's longest chain of organ donations has been completed in the US, with 30 patients
receiving a kidney from 30 living donors.
The chain connected people who had wanted to donate a kidney to a family member or friend, but
were incompatible, with a suitable stranger.
Their loved one then received a kidney from someone else along the chain. The complicated
process lasted for four months and involved 17 hospitals across 11 states.
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