Health officials in Michigan and Ohio confirmed an unidentified Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant. According to CBS News, the patient was being treated in Lucas County, Ohio, where the patient died.

A Michigan resident has died of rabies after receiving a transplanted organ in Ohio, the Toledo-Lucas County (Ohio) Health Department reported Wednesday.  The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the report,

A Michigan resident died earlier this year after contracting rabies from an organ transplant, health officials said. The patient had the organ transplanted at a hospital in Ohio in December and died in January, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Lynn Sutfin said.