World's first Head Transplant to be performed by 2017..!!

Hmmnn.. Interesting stufff.. Imagine being in another person's body (head present BUT other parts absent).

An Italian-Chinese medical team plan to perform the world's first head transplant in China, one of
the surgeons said Friday, amid concerns over medical ethics in the country.

Ren Xiaoping, who along with Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero, hope to attempt the procedure within two
years, but only if the preparatory research and tests go according to plan, Ren said.

"A lot of media have been saying we will definitely attempt the surgery by 2017, but that's only if every step
before that proceeds smoothly," Ren told AFP.

Canavero, who leads the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, first announced his project in 2013, saying
at the time that such a procedure could be possible as soon as 2016.

The man who has volunteered for the operation is Russian-born Valery Spiridonov, 30, who suffers from
Werdnig-Hoffmann disease, which is a progressive and incurable wasting ailment.

Ren said the operation would likely take place at Harbin Medical University in China's northeast Heilongjiang
province.

He declined to say where a donated body might come from and said he was unsure if the donor would be
Chinese.

High demand for organs in China and a chronic shortage of donations mean that death row inmates have been
a key source for years, generating heated controversy. However, China has pledged not to use the organs of
executed prisoners, but experts have voiced scepticism about the plan, arguing that organs will continue to be
harvested from inmates but that they will now be classified as"donations".

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