I know at one point they were using pig hearts for transplants. One of the explanations was that the genome was similar enough, even more then monkeys if I remember correctly. I’ve always wondered if that was why God told the Jews not to eat pork, because it could lead to long term complications similar to that disease caused by canabilism.
Of course you’re right. The Jews were not supposed to keep pigs, but there were Jews tending to pigs when Jesus chased the “legion” of creatures out of the Jewish man and into a herd of pigs. Their immune systems are very similar to ours, and we can trade illnesses. Soaking living human organs in pigs and trading DNA is a death sentence. Only a matter of time before something horrid takes place.
Swine flu.
I know they use pig valves for human heart valve replacement sometimes.
Pigs... trichinosis?