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After 19 hours of gruelling surgery, a team of surgeons from South Africa was finally able to successfully complete a head transplant operation, as claimed by several reports.
The reports revealed that a certain Paul Horner, a 36-year-old patient who agreed to undergo the controversial operation, was diagnosed with bone cancer five years ago. With only less than a month to live, Horner was allowed to undergo the ground-breaking surgery that was carried out on February 10 at the Charlotte Maxexe Johannesburg Academic Hospital.
One of the surgeons who reportedly conducted the world’s first successful head transplant said it’s a massive breakthrough in medicine.
So where exactly did they get Horner’s donor body?
According to one of the doctors, the parents of a 21-year-old patient in vegetative state allowed them to use their son’s body for the operation.
“We were fortunate enough to find a donor body; a 21-year-old man who has been brain dead from a serious car accident that happened in 2012. The boys body worked just fine, but his brain was not functioning whatsoever, and there was absolutely no chance of recovery, “ one of the surgeons explained.
Pleased by Horner’s rapid recovery, the doctors announced that Horner can already walk, talk, and do regular things that healthy individuals are capable of.
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Real or Fabricated?
Although reports have confirmed the possibility of human head transplant in two years’ time, such a radical operation has yet not taken place.
Thus, Paul Horner’s successful head transplant operation is among several FABRICATED stories circulating on the Internet.
Just a few months ago, Dr. Sergio Canavero, a surgeon from Turin, Italy revealed his plan to graft a living person’s head onto a brain-dead body of a donor. However, the controversial operation faces a number of ethical issues.
