The Nation - News from Aug. 19, 1986
Despite appeals for an organ donor by her 6-year-old brother and President Reagan, 2-year-old Kimberly Izzo died at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pa., while waiting for a liver transplant. The Woodbridge, N.J., girl, who had been stricken with chicken pox and a virus that attacked her liver, died after lying through the night in a coma. Her brother had spent much of the weekend appealing through the media for a liver donation.
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