Photo: flickr/Digiart2001 | jason.kuffer
It's been a few years since we first blogged about this incredible case study. You can read the details below, but in short, an organ transplant recipient got more than she bargained for when she got a potentially fatal peanut allergy along with her "new" lung. This was made horribly apparent when she nearly died after eating a peanut butter cookie at a transplant recipient support group meeting. Yup--almost unbelievable. In fact, some of you, our dear readers, accused us of perpetuating an urban legend, an allegation countered by a follow-up post from our fellow
Discover Magazine bloggers, who contacted the authors of the original case study to check the facts. And yes, we also stand by our original claim (and post title: "Oh, the irony!") that this story satisfies at least one definition of irony. Transfer of peanut allergy from the donor to a lung ...
