MONKEY LIVES WITH TRANSPLANTED PIG LIVER

A team of Chinese scientists have successfully transplanted organs from pigs to three monkeys in what could potentially prove to be a step forward in finding solutions to the global organ shortage. The procedure could help humans live off organ transplants from pigs.
– A 10-year-old male rhesus monkey received a liver from a pig. It has, so far, lived 16 days.
– Two other male macaques received a pig kidney and a pig heart. All the organs worked perfectly inside the receivers’ bodies, although the eight-year-old heart recipient died after seven days, while the nine-year-old monkey with a porcine kidney lived just 24 hours.
* But did they work perfectly though? I believe the monkeys are dead.
* Didn’t work out too well for the pig, either.
* I guess the key is, they “successfully transplanted” the organs. They cut them out, then sewed them in. Good work, fellas!
* What if you’re Jewish, and supposed to stay away from pork?
* To be clear, there is no shortage of human organs, just a shortage of convenient human organs.
* Hey, China – if this is supposed to make up for the pandemic, it’s not working.