![]() “It will be a great day for Charla and for all of us. “I think her new face will allow her to be present when Brianna graduates from college in a few years,” he says. Pomahac notes that Nash did not attend her daughter Brianna’s high school graduation last year because she didn’t want to distract from the ceremonies. Nash went on the Oprah Show and displayed her blank and mangled features.īut she’s generally been loathe to go out in public without a veil. A harrowing 911 recording from the chimp’s owner, pleading with police to come and shoot the rampaging chimp, has been widely circulated.įollowing her initial restorative surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Many people know of Nash because her injuries were so horrific – the angry chimp ripped off her face and gnawed her hands and forearm. The functioning of the face will really add to the quality of her life.” She received a full-face transplant at Brigham and Women's. Nash’s brother Steve calls the transplant results “outstanding.” Charla Nash, a Connecticut woman who lost her face and hands in early 2009 when she was attacked by an angry chimpanzee, is the patient. She will need lifelong immune-suppressing drugs to prevent the donor tissue from being rejected. Nash is still on and off a ventilator and sedated much of the time, although Pomahac says she is communicating through nods and arm gestures. Her eyes had to be removed after the attack. She could eat, smell, express her emotion and feel the face.” When the transplanted tissue heals and nerves regrow – a process that will take at least nine months and possibly longer – Pomahac says Nash “should control the face well. “We’re optimistic that should Charla choose in the future, we could transplant the hands again, should a suitable donor be identified.”ĭespite the loss of the hands, Pomahac says, “I consider it still a success” because Nash has a very good chance of regaining “a very functional face.” Re: Pet Chimpanzee Rips Off Womans Face « Reply 29 on: February 19, 2009, 04:19:21 pm » The latest is that the attacked woman was a russian spy and the chimp was a deep undercover agent named Bond. “After several days of doing everything possible to retain the hands, it was clear that they were not thriving,” Pomahac said at a press conference. That compromised blood flow to the transplanted hands, so surgeons had to remove them. But after the operation Nash suffered a blood infection that caused her blood pressure to crash. In February 2009, Travis and his owner Sandra Hero. ![]() In a 20-hour operation, surgeon Bohdan Pomahac says the team transplanted hands from the same donor. Travis was a male common chimpanzee who attacked and nearly killed a woman in North Stamford, Connecticut. And while doctors have high hopes for her recovery, the other part of the surgery didn’t go so well. ![]() If passed, humans would no longer be able to attend an exotic-animal auction in another state and bring home a “pet” monkey or order a monkey online from out of state.She’ received a full-face transplant at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston - only the third American to receive the operation. Have you heard of the Captive Primate Safety Act? It would outlaw the purchase and transportation of primates across state lines and would prohibit dangerous direct contact between them and the public. It’s too late to help Travis or Buck, but you can join PETA in helping to secure a better future for other “pet” primates. Even before Travis ripped a woman’s face off more than a decade ago, it was clear that such attacks are inevitable so long as people continue to treat chimpanzees like Chihuahuas. PETA had already cautioned law enforcement of this very danger, warning state authorities that she had created a ticking time bomb by engaging in direct contact with a dangerous ape. ![]() She had deprived the highly social animal of the companionship of other chimpanzees and kept him as a “pet” for years before he mauled her daughter. Those who can’t live in nature need to be socialized with other chimpanzees and kept in secure enclosures that offer plenty of environmental complexity and that will protect them from being shot and killed after they unsurprisingly lash out.ĭeputies from the sheriff’s office were reportedly called to Brogoitti’s home after Buck was allowed out of his cage. Chimpanzees don’t belong in human households. He’s free to roam the house, which is not only reckless but also apparently illegal. In this photo, which PETA obtained through a public records request from the state of Oregon, Buck is seen sitting and eating on a bed. ![]()
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