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NEJM Interview: Dr. Richard Pierson on the implications of recent efforts to transplant pig organs into humans.

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The Next Steps for Zuna Transplantation Research?

In three cases, two at n yu and one in al ama, organs from pigs were transplanted into humans. The risks that we worry most about are the potential for a pig organ to transmit an infection into a potential recipient or to cause illness in that recipient. We have tools to surveil so that any person who's received a transplant from a pig, we can see in their blood if thes evidence of the perve having been released.

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