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World's first head transplant one step closer as patient to meet surgeon lined up

New York: A man who wants to be the world's first head transplant patient is set to meet the surgeon who has been lined up to carry out ground-breaking 36-hour procedure.

Computer programmer Valery Spiridonov has the rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman muscle wasting disease and wants his head to be transplanted to a new body.

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