There are more than 100,000 people currently waiting for an organ transplant and it’s estimated that another person is added to the waitlist every 8 minutes, according to the Health Resources & Services Administration. There aren’t enough organs to go around and 17 people die each day waiting for one, HRSA estimates.
“Even though I had seven cardiac arrests and could have died in any of those events, I still was not sick enough to really draw an organ,” he told ABC News. “And that’s really when it became so clear to me that we had to find another source of organs other than human organs.”
Pigs born on the Revivicor farm in Blacksburg, Virginia, are genetically modified to delete certain pig genes and add human genes, so the recipien…
