FIRST HEAD TRANSPLANT IN THE WORLD MADE POSSIBLE

The first head transplant was made possible at Johannesburg, South Africa. Paul Horner, a 36-year-old man from United States has undergone the world's first successful head transplant. Though he lives in the United States, the operation had to be done overseas where the medical guidelines are not as strict.


The operation happened at the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital in Parktown, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Surgeons led by Professor Myron Danus carried out the operation in February but was only now they announced the public because they waited until they could confirm it was successful.


As a brief situation of him before his operation, he was riddled with cancer and he had less than a month to live. Fortunately, a 21-year-old man who has been brain dead from a car accident. His parents approved to use their sons body to do the operation.

Horner's condition now is quite 85% recovery, walking, talking and do the normal things as healthy as he is before.