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Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by krisoft on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:04PM (#29884281)
Now I wonder if someone who got meat alergy after a tick bite could eat these pigs. Is this the same alpha gal in both cases?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy

Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by greensoap on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:12PM (#29884402)
Yes, they can. That was the focus of the RadioLab update on the Alpha Gal pigs. The person that loved meat before getting the allergy had moved on to a non-meat life. And when the company started marketing alpha gal safe meat, that person was the inspiration and the person was not happy about it.
Re:U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient by type_enthusiast on Monday January 10, 2022 @06:08PM (#29884339)
Yes – they also discussed this pretty extensively in the RadioLab segment.

In the second segment (linked by GP), they first re-played the previous segment (also linked by GP) about alpha-gal allergy. They then revealed that the company behind the alpha-gal safe pigs (which are being grown for medial research purposes) heard the previous one about the alpha-gal allergy, and after hearing it decided to seek FDA approval for alpha-gal safe pigs in the food market (which they received).