It’s something researchers could prevent in the future.
A preventable infection by a porcine virus might have contributed to the death of the first patient to have a heart transplant with a pig organ,David Bennett Sr, who had severe heart disease, received a genetically modified pig heart in early January of this year — a major milestone in animal-to-human transplants, or xenotransplantation. He
. Initially, the hospital where the procedure was performed said that the cause of death was unknown.
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