Among the issues being debated are the future handling of organ transplantation and the ethical dilemmas surrounding donation.
Despite this case, the benefits of organ transplantation "generally outweigh the risks", the CDC said in a statement.
The current criteria on brain death were set by a Harvard Medical School committee in 1968, at a time when organ transplantation was making great strides.
However, the full promise of organ transplantation has been stultified with many potential recipients dying while on the waiting list because of the scarcity of organs.
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"The organ transplantation occurred more than a year before the recipient developed symptoms and died of rabies, " the CDC said, adding such an incubation period is much longer than usual but not unheard of.
This morning's Health Committee (click on the link to watch in full) on the proposed opt-out Bill on organ transplantation was not far off a masterclass in scrutiny - and you don't hear that too often in the Assembly.
Laymond decided to get involved in the competition when she heard that the crew representing Edinburgh would have a relay team of transplant patients, surgeons and specialist nurses on its boat to raise awareness for organ transplantation -- something that saved her life six years ago.
Over the past few weeks, the committee has been hearing from people involved in organ transplantation, from the academic ethicists right through to those who have to have those unimaginably difficult discussions with families at their time of greatest grief about the personal wishes of their loved one at the point of death.
The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, a public-private partnership that sets nationalpolicies for organ allocation and screening, and the United Network for Organ Sharing, which operates the system, are formulating a policy for living-donor screening that would keep patients safe without compromising organ availability, said Connie L. Davis, who chairs the panel working on the policy.
The group was set up in February 2001 to provide advice to the Scottish Executive on organ donation and transplantation issues.
Spain leads internationally with 34 deceased donors per million population, according to figures from the International Registry of Organ Donation and Transplantation.
The STG - which includes health professionals, patients' organisations and members of the public - was created last year to provide advice on organ donation and transplantation.
The authors also decided it was important to separate completely the diagnosis and confirmation of death from anything to do with the issues surrounding organ donation and transplantation.
In the U.S. in 2009, 14, 632 organs were donated, while the transplant wait list had 104, 898 patients, according to data from the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients.
"I ask that you pay particular attention to the age categories currently used in lung allocation, and review the policy with the intent of identifying any potential improvements to this policy that would make more transplants available to children, " Sebelius said in a letter to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
Even in the UK, where there is an established organ donor scheme, there is still a shortage of corneal tissue for transplantation.
Ministers tabled the Human Transplantation (Wales) Bill in December 2012 to introduce presumed consent in organ donation.
The most recent annual report by the National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry also indicates she is the first reported case of a five-organ transplant patient in the world to give birth.
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