don't organ receivers have to take medication that weakens their immune system to prevent it from destroying the foreign organ?
Yes, organ recipients must take a lot of immunosupressants in order to prevent their immune system from creating a cytokine storm and rejecting the new organ.
The short of it is that humans aren't designed to naturally inter-exchange organs with one another, and so the immunosupressants are used until the body accepts the organ.
As logic would dictate, during the period where your immune system is being suppressed, it leaves you vulnerable to all sorts of potential ailments.
Did the wuflu kill them or have the myriad of things that can go wrong with transplants been reclassified as kung flu?
Yes, organ recipients must take a lot of immunosupressants in order to prevent their immune system from creating a cytokine storm and rejecting the new organ.
The short of it is that humans aren't designed to naturally inter-exchange organs with one another, and so the immunosupressants are used until the body accepts the organ.
As logic would dictate, during the period where your immune system is being suppressed, it leaves you vulnerable to all sorts of potential ailments.
Those immune system repressing drugs can be a lifetime subscription. Your body never really learns to accept the invading tissue.
That's true. And in some cases, the body still outright rejects the organ even while on the immunosuppresants.