University of Maryland doctors said Thursday they found an unwelcome surprise — viral DNA inside the pig heart.
A Maryland man, 57-year-old David Bennett Sr., died in March, two months after the groundbreaking experimental transplant. They did not find signs that this bug, called porcine cytomegalovirus, was causing an active infection.
Still, development is under way of more sophisticated tests to"make sure that we don't miss these kinds of viruses," added Dr. Muhammad Mohiuddin, scientific director of the university's xenotransplant program. In this photo provided by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, members of the surgical team show the pig heart for transplant into patient David Bennett in Baltimore on Friday, January 7, 2022. On Monday, January 10, 2022, the hospital said that he's doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery.
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