Marine regrows leg muscle

VTWoody sends us a link to the UK Mail that tells the story of a young Marine who was injected with some tissue which helped him regrow the part of his leg that he lost in a mortar attack;

Marine Isaias Hernandez lost 70 per cent of his right thigh muscles when an enemy mortar exploded as he tried to carry out repairs to a truck in Afghanistan.

With such severe muscle damage Hernandez would ordinarily have had his leg amputated.

But a re-think in the way soldiers are treated led to the wounded warrior being injected with a growth promoting substance extracted from pig bladders.

I guess that we won’t be able to use the treatment for our wounded enemies because of the porcine tissue implants. So I guess it’s their loss.

Category: Military issues, Terror War