Study: Safe to transplant hepatitis C-infected hearts, lungs

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new study suggests doctors can safely transplant lungs or hearts from hepatitis C-positive donors without infecting the recipients.
It’s the latest attempt to speed transplants by using organs that otherwise would be thrown away.
Doctors first experimented with hepatitis C-infected kidney transplants, using powerful new drugs to cure the virus in recipients who became infected. But it wasn’t clear if hepatitis C-infected lung and heart transplants would work