US Navy veteran ‘cracking jokes’ two days after pig heart transplant

US Navy veteran ‘cracking jokes’ two days after pig heart transplant
Lawrence Faucette sits with his wife, Ann, in hospital (Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine via AP)

US surgeons have transplanted a pig’s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life in only the second operation of its kind.

Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said on Friday.

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