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And if it’s only 10 deaths per year, and there was a previous death like roughly 10 years ago, that’s at about 2%, which I assume is reasonably high enough to test for.
Your math is off by a bit there. In 2024 alone there were ~48,000 organ transplants performed in the US. Now, that was a record high. So if all ~10 people who died of rabies in 2024 had been organ donors and somehow it wasn't caught that they died from rabies that's still only a 0.02% chance of getting an infected organ. That number is still wrong because all of those cases were caught and their organs would not have been donated, plus only about 58% of the adult US population are listed as organ donors. Also, it's fewer than 10 people, not ~10 people. The actual average number of people who have died from diagnosed rabies in the US since 2000 is ~2.5 per year.
So, overall, the chance of a registered organ donor dying from rabies and their organs still being donated is remarkably low.
Where are you getting that 2%?
I assume that 2 rabies deaths in 10 years for however many organ transplants in that same period is much less than a 2% incidence. A quick google tells me that there were over 48k organ transplants in the US in 2024 alone.