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TodayHeadline Man who received landmark pig heart transplant died of pig virus, surgeon says - The Guardian US –

The man was the first person to receive a transplant using a heart from a genetically modified pig.

The first patient receiving a heart transplant with a pig heart might have died because the heart was infected with a virus, not because his body rejected the organ. The heart was supposed to be virus-free.

They can't say whether it played a role in his death, but researchers have found a virus in the pig heart used in the first-ever transplant into a human.

Researchers trying to learn what killed the first person to receive a pig heart transplant have found the organ harbored an animal virus.

The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig may have also been the first person to be killed by porcine cytomegalovirus—a virus normally only found in pigs...

A Maryland man who lived with a transplanted, genetically-modified pigs heart for two months may have died due to a virus that targets feral animals, The New York Times reported Thursday.

Viral infection may explain why a pig's heart failed months after being transplanted in a ground-breaking surgery

A major worry about animal-to-human transplants is the risk that it could introduce new kinds of infections to people.

They can't say whether it played a role in his death, but researchers have found a virus in the pig heart used in the first-ever transplant into a human.