Doctors reviewed records about the kidney donor and learned that the Idaho man’s family had disclosed the skunk scratch to doctors when his organs were being donated, the report said.

So the guy had symptoms of rabies, and the family informed doctors that he’d been in contact with wildlife recently

The report said that organ donations are not routinely tested for rabies “because of its rarity in humans in the United States and the complexity of diagnostic testing.”

But they decided it was too unlikely to test for it anyway.