Giving organs first to organ donors will convince more people to register as organ donors.
But on average only two of those 400 will become organ donors after death.
Only 9% of Jersey's residents are registered as organ donors, according to a General Hospital consultant.
Organ donors are not routinely tested for rabies, even if they show the signs.
There is a worldwide shortage of organ donors - a factor that may have exacerbated competition.
There is a great shortage of organ donors in the U.S., especially when it comes to kidneys.
On the contrary, current policies are a clear contributing factor to the short supply of organ donors.
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Of those the number who prove to be suitable organ donors is around 228 - a tiny percentage.
Thanks to screening of organ donors for HIV, the chance of contracting the virus from a transplant is remote.
Making medical records easily available, he said, helped hospitals find organ donors quickly.
LifeSharers is a non-profit network of organ donors who agree to offer their organs first to other organ donors when they die.
"Over the last five years, the numbers of deceased organ donors in Wales has followed a generally positive trend, " said Mr Drakeford.
And yet even with this obscure procedure over 20 percent of Californians have signed up to be organ donors, which is fantastic.
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She may never have made these friends were it not for the generosity of organ donors, but they are a scarce commodity.
Under these regulations, each donor is supposed to be told about how other organ donors fared after their surgeries, both nationwide and at Lahey specifically.
Federal guidelines published last year for evaluating organ donors with encephalitis urge "extreme caution" if the suspected cause is a viral pathogen, such as rabies.
At the end of 1997, there were 4.6m registered organ donors in the UK - but doctors said this was only around half the number needed.
But he said increased awareness of the need for organ donors, through government campaigns, and other sources of information were the key to increasing donor numbers.
Presumed consent would mean that Welsh residents would be presumed to be organ donors unless they have joined an opt out register or immediate relatives object.
The bill to introduce an opt-out system, which presumes people have consented to being organ donors unless they state otherwise, is making its way through the assembly.
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After Pennsylvania passed a pilot program in 1994 to pay burial expenses for organ donors, state employees refused to implement the law for fear of federal prosecution.
Facebook itself does not register organ donors but does take U.S. residents to a map where they can click on their state and register with the appropriate authority.
Islet stem cells currently are obtained from human organ donors.
To this end, in May, more than 100, 000 Facebook users signed up to be organ donors when the social network introduced a feature to links users to organ donation registries.
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Some countries, particularly Spain, have succeeded in raising the number of organ donors, but there is still much room for improvement, according to Leo Roels, managing director of the Donor Action Foundation.
He adds that the country faces a severe shortage of organ donors, partly because many people do not want to donate organs due to the cultural belief of that they should be buried whole.
The system is designed to increase the number of organ and tissue donors, if legislation is approved.
Japan didn't legalize organ transplants from brain-dead donors until 1997, according to the Japan Organ Transplant Network, a non-governmental group.
Spain leads the world in organ donation, with 33 deceased donors per million people, compared with 12 donors per million in the UK, according to Watson.
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