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Freely Filtered 044: Pigs on the Wing: Xenotransplantation

Freely Filtered, a NephJC Podcast

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The Herpes B Virus

Before the pandemic I might have scoffed about it but now everyone is a lot more touchy about the idea of animal viruses. So that we see so many human viruses that get transmitted in transplant We see CMV, EBV and BK virus other issues that cause problems. It's never caused human disease There've been a lot of pig products transplanted into in the humans inert ones like the valves obviously But also cells and other exposures and it'sNever caused human disease Would it be a big deal? Hard to know the answer to that like you said we struggle already with all these human virusesbut I don't know could you cause a pandemic could you expose mankind to a virus

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