Doctor reveals pig heart transplant patient probably died due to pig virus - MSPoweruser

Bartley Griffith, the transplant doctor from the Bartley Griffith of the University of Maryland, confirmed that the transplanted heart was infected with porcine cytomegalovirus.

We saw a big breakthrough in the medical field earlier this month when a man named David Bennett Sr received a heart of a pig for his xenotransplantation or animal-to-human transplant. Unfortunately,… [+2477 chars]

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