http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/11/26/xenotransplants-might-wipe-out-the-human-race/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/11/26/xenotransplants-might-wipe-out-the-human-race/#comment-3899 Thomas Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:45:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=3364#comment-3899 You confuse two different risks. It is unlikely that one person getting a transplant, whether from a human or from an animal will get infected, but the consequences are quite different. If you are infected by an organ from another human it's just you being infected. If a mutation causes a mutation that creates a new disease, that disease can spread far beyond the original victim. A disease jumping to humanity only has to happen once, anywhere on Earth. This has been taken seriously enough that apes were early ruled out as organ donors because we are too similar and thus the infection risk is too great. You confuse two different risks. It is unlikely that one person getting a transplant, whether from a human or from an animal will get infected, but the consequences are quite different. If you are infected by an organ from another human it’s just you being infected. If a mutation causes a mutation that creates a new disease, that disease can spread far beyond the original victim. A disease jumping to humanity only has to happen once, anywhere on Earth. This has been taken seriously enough that apes were early ruled out as organ donors because we are too similar and thus the infection risk is too great.

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]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/2010/11/26/xenotransplants-might-wipe-out-the-human-race/#comment-3896 Charles Schmidt Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:14:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/sciencenotfiction/?p=3364#comment-3896 There has all ways been a way for the human race to be eliminated and we get better at how to do it, will it happen or not, I do not know but I will not be staying awake thinking about it. There has all ways been a way for the human race to be eliminated and we get better at how to do it, will it happen or not, I do not know but I will not be staying awake thinking about it.

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