His sort of "claim to fame" was his willingness to undergo a highly radical medical procedure back in 1995, which was to have a bone marrow transplant from a baboon in the hopes that the baboon's natural immunity to AIDS would be transferred to him. It was the first-ever trans-species bone marrow transplant in history, a clearly desperate but brave move on his part in the hopes of a cure.
His life was devoted to his activism as demonstrated by his willingness to participate in many experimental hospital trials, numerous protests accompanied by a number of arrests as well.
I tried a Google search on [Jeff Getty], but didn't come up with much except for some older articles posted when the baboon transplant first happened. It's kind of sad, really. I was hoping he made more of an impact on the web as a whole.
Goodbye, Jeff. You'll certainly be missed, but I hope not forgotten.
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