Was the virus involved in the man's death? 🙄
Bennet's story should ideally have been the success story that heralded a new age of xenotransplants - where donor and recipient belong to different species. What is has now done instead is raised a series of questions ranging from procedural to ethical ones that need some deep-digging to find the correct answers. The company behind the technology, Revivicor, has gone to great lengths to ensure that the donor organ is not rejected by the host's immune system.
After the transplant, Bennet was kept under observation at the hospital and underwent a series of tests to determine to monitor the transplant. One of these tests scanned his blood for hundreds of bacteria and viruses and it was here that the cytomegalovirus was first detected. The detected levels were low enough not to cause an alarm but it took 10 days to carry out the test. One day, Bennet woke up with what looked like obvious signs of an infection that the doctors did not know which.
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