For some time now a hot topic has circulating the internet of the world’s first head transplant. A group of surgeons have claimed to have successfully carried out the first head transplant operation, however, the big question remains as to whether this is really true. The authenticity if the news is seriously in question.
A medical team led by a surgeon Professor Myron Danus had allegedly carried out the head transplant performed on a 36 year old patient by the name of Paul Horner who had been suffering from cancer.
1 The incredible story
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The fantastic news story relates how the Professor found Paul Horner's body riddled with cancer for 5 years had less than a month to live. The head was obtained by an organ donor, a 21-year-old who had been brain dead from a car accident in 2012. The boy’s body worked fine but his brain was dead with no chances of recovery. The fantastic procedure was planned to transplant Horners head onto the 21-year-old boy’s body.
In total contradiction of a real head transplant that may take place in 2017, the Paul Horner head transplant took just 19 hours to accomplish. What is totally fake here is the case that a head transplant even if it were possible would require a team of no less than 100 surgeons and 36 hours to complete. The alleged procedure instead took a small team of surgeons and was supposedly done at the Charlotte Maxexe Johannesburg Academic Hospital.
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