The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died, two months after the groundbreaking experiment, the Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced Wednesday.
David Bennett, 57, of Hagerstown Maryland, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Doctors didn't give an exact cause of death, saying only that his condition had begun deteriorating several days earlier.
It was probably Covid-19, that's what everybody nowadays is dying from...
I can see the lifesaving benefits of some of these projects, but they do cross the line into a horror flick. I remember some years ago that Japanese scientists had created a mouse that tweeted like a bird. Of course, this is some of the stuff they tell us about. I'm sure there has been worse stuff done over the last few decades.
ReplyDeleteImo, doctors should be prohibited from conducting sadistic experiments on desperate patients, though I do sympathise with their victim:)
ReplyDeleteMedical profession has a lot to answer for...