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U.S. firefighter gets world's most extensive face transplant

Reuters: Science - Posted: November 17th, 2015, 3:51am UTC

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A volunteer firefighter from Mississippi whose face was burned off during a home fire rescue received the world's most extensive face transplant, New York University Langone Medical Center said on Monday.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4b9075f5/sc/32/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=uUE5GC8qjsQ:rdkZ74dw1Gs:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=uUE5GC8qjsQ:rdkZ74dw1Gs:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=uUE5GC8qjsQ:rdkZ74dw1Gs:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=uUE5GC8qjsQ:rdkZ74dw1Gs:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=uUE5GC8qjsQ:rdkZ74dw1Gs:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/uUE5GC8qjsQ" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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