Man who received landmark pig heart transplant died of pig virus, surgeon says
by Maya Yang from Science | The Guardian on (#5YYGW)
David Bennett died two months after groundbreaking surgery in which a genetically modified pig's heart was transplanted into him
The 57-year-old patient who survived two months after undergoing a landmark pig heart transplant died of a pig virus, his transplant surgeon announced last month.
In January, David Bennett, a handyman who suffered from heart failure, underwent a highly experimental surgery at the University of Maryland medical center in which doctors transplanted a genetically modified pig's heart into him.
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