After several days, the ball of cells that results contains a blanket of embryonic stem cells endowed with the genetic material of the donor skin cell, which have the ability to generate every cell type from that donor.
The CDC then examined autopsy tissue from the donor and determined he had died of the same type of rabies, which is spread by raccoons, according to the CDC.
Initially, moral authorities encouraged this type of donation because they believed it abhorrent that a donor should be paid for the trouble of undergoing surgery to provide a vitally needed body part to another individual.