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Baboon Aids Experiment

Witness: Archive 2014 by BBC

Dec 12, 20149:02Society & Culture

Aids patient Jeff Getty was given a bone marrow transplant, from a baboon, in December 1995. It was the first time a human being had been given baboon cells. Witness speaks to Dr Steven Deeks, the doctor who oversaw the...

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Baboon Aids Experiment is an episode from Witness: Archive 2014 by BBC. Aids patient Jeff Getty was given a bone marrow transplant, from a baboon, in December 1995. It was the first time a human being had been given baboon cells. Witness sp...

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Published Dec 12, 2014, 9:02 long, audio available.