South Africa Performs World's First Successful Penis Transplant

Young South African men undergoing traditional initiation practices are plagued by botched circumcisions, and numbers of them die every year. Now doctors at one of the country's medical schools have performed the world's successful transplant of a penis.

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The transplant team.

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