Pic shows: The Russian man to get full body transplant. An Italian surgeon is set to become the first in the world to transplant a human head onto a donor body. The pioneering operation by Dr Sergio Canavero is to be carried out on a 30-year-old computer scientist who is suffering from a fatal muscle wasting disease who said he was forced to go ahead with it as he has ‘no other choice’. Valery Spiridonov has admitted that the prospect of going through with the operation is terrifying but added: “I am afraid, but what people don’t really understand is I don’t really have many choices. “If I don’t try this out my fate will be very sad. With every year my situation is getting worse.” The man from Russia, who is battling the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease, added: “My decision is final and I do not plan to change my mind.” Surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero who is lined up to carry out the procedure said he had received many email and letters from people seeking the procedure and he had already decided that the first patient would be someone suffering from a muscle wasting disease. The Frankenstein-like procedure has some medical precedent as it was recently reported that Chinese scientists had carried out a head transplant on a mouse. But most medical experts say a human head transplant is pure fantasy. Dr Hunt Batjer, president elect of the American Association for Neurological Surgeons, told CNN: “I would not wish this on anyone. I would not allow anyone to do it to me as there are a lot of things worse than death.” (ends)
Russian Man To Get Full Body Transplant
