MSU student Liam Clegg was suffering kidney failure when his parents put out the call on social media for donors. Michelle ...

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He also felt sick a week before the transplant, though he attributed it to simple food poisoning. Other tests found evidence of the bacteria in the donor and in the transplanted kidney.