The family of Myles Neuts was shocked to discover medical officials disposed of his organs before the family had a chance to claim them.
In 1998, 10-year-old Neuts was found hanging from a coat hook in a washroom stall door at St. Agnes Catholic School in Chatham. The Grade 5 pupil died six days later, after being taken off of life support, and a coroner?s inquest was held into the death,
His parents, Mike and Brenda Neuts, recently saw a newspaper notice from the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service saying it?s reaching out to families to return organs of family members whose deaths involved a coroner?s investigation and autopsy before June 14, 2010.
Mike Neuts knew Myles? pituitary gland had been removed during the autopsy, but when he asked for more information he was shocked to learn his son?s brain and spinal cord had also been removed.
Those details were in an autopsy report and transcripts from the inquest, but Neuts said he overlooked them because he was still distraught.
Neuts also found out the hospital that performed the autopsy had already disposed of his son?s organs.
Dr. Michael Pollanen, chief forensic pathologist for Ontario, said practices in forensic pathology have changed
and organs no longer need to be kept as often,
He said medical ethics about sharing potentially-distressing news with families has also changed over the years.
?The ethical imperatives now have changed to full disclosure, as opposed to non-disclosure.? Pollanen said,
Neuts said he favours full disclosure, but personally contacting families would have been the better route to go, if organs were available.
?I wonder how many people like me have applied and there?s nothing there for us to get out, especially some of us who didn?t know (organs) were gone,? he said.
Pollanen said more than 2,000 individuals have contacted his office about the issue.
Pollanen said there is now a two-year time limit on retaining organs, which wasn?t the case in the past.
Neuts has been critical of the coroner?s inquest process over the years, but said the efforts of Pollanen give him hope that real changes are happening.
?When I got past my raw emotion and took a look at it . . . I need to be fair and say, ?You know what, they?re trying to clean it up and that?s why this happened,?? he said.
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? To obtain the organs of a family member whose death involved a coroner?s investigation and autopsy, call 1-855-564-4122 or go online to Ontario.ca/OrganRetention.
? Affected families can request organs be sent to a funeral home for cremation or burial and expenses will be covered by the province.
Mar. 22, 2013 ? In August 2011, researchers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture were presented with a serious, and potentially very costly, puzzle in Kennewick, Wash. Since Kennewick lies within a region near the heart of Washington state's $1.5 billion apple-growing region, an annual survey of fruit trees is performed by the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) to look for any invading insects. This time the surveyors discovered a crabapple tree that had been infested by a fruit fly that they couldn't identify.
It was possible that the fly's larvae, eating away inside the crabapples as they grew toward adulthood, belonged to a relatively harmless species that had simply expanded its traditional diet. In that case, they posed little threat to the surrounding apple orchards in central Washington.
But the real fear was that they represented an expansion in the range of the invasive apple maggot fly, known to biologists as Rhagoletis pomonella. If so, then this would trigger a costly quarantine process affecting three counties in the state.
"In one of the world's leading apple-growing regions, a great deal of produce and economic livelihood rested on quickly and accurately figuring out which one of the flies was in that tree," says Jeffrey Feder, professor of biological sciences and a member of the Advanced Diagnostics & Therapeutics initiative (AD&T) at the University of Notre Dame. "And for these flies, it can sometime turn out to be a difficult thing to do."
As Feder and his team, including graduate student Gilbert St. Jean and AD&T research assistant professor Scott Egan, discuss in a new study in the Journal of Economic Entomology, the WSDA sent larvae samples to Wee Yee, research entomologist at the USDA's Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory in Wapato, Wash. One larva was sent to Notre Dame for genetic analysis. The study sought to compare Notre Dame's genetic analysis to Yee's visual identification after the larvae had developed into adults. Fortunately, the fly identified, Rhagoletis indifferens, is not known to infest apples. The Notre Dame group further demonstrated that it is possible to genetically identify the correct fly species within two days, compared to the four months required to raise and visually identify the fly.
A separate study led by the Feder lab details how the apple maggot fly was recently introduced into the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S., likely via larval-infested apples from the East. The flies have subsequently reached as far north as British Columbia, Canada, and as far south as northern California. So far, though, the apple maggot has not been reported infesting any commercial apple orchards in central Washington.
"The correct identification of the larvae infesting crabapple trees saved the local, state and federal agencies thousands of dollars in monitoring, inspection and control costs," Yee said. "The cost to growers if the apple maggot had been found to be established in the region would have been very substantial (easily over half a million dollars), but the rapid diagnostic test developed at Notre Dame suspended the need to proceed with the rulemaking process, saving staff and administrative costs."
The Feder team is continuing to refine the genetic assays to develop a portable test that would be valuable in apple-growing regions, as well as ports of entry where fruit infested by nonlocal insect species can be rapidly detected, to prevent the spread of the insect.
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