If pig transplants can give humans Porcine CMV, what else can they give people?
Pig Used in Human Heart Transplant Had Virus, Patient 'Looked Infected' (newsweek.com)
According to the MIT Technology Review, Griffith said they noticed a "blip" indicating the presence of porcine cytomegalovirus 20 days after the surgery, but the levels were very low so it was put down as an error. On day 43, Bennett had started to deteriorate: "He looked really funky," Griffith said. "Something happened to him. He looked infected. He lost his attention and wouldn't talk to us."