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In some developing countries, the skin of animals has often been used on patients with severe burns because they lack the skin resources that are more widely available in developed nations, like the U.S. In Brazil, there are a mere 3 functional skin banks in the entire country, which meet only 1 percent of the demand for skin for burn victims.
Typically, human skin, pig skin, and artificial alternatives are used in the treatment for victims, but with so few resources in Brazil, doctors have been forced to go with the more painful approach, instead using cream and gauze on the wounds. With this method, the gauze must be unwrapped and changed every single day, which is extremely painful for the patients, who are often seen writhing and screaming in pain.
What's worse is that the cream and gauze only help keep the wound clean; Dr. Jeanne Lee, interim burn director at the the regional burn center at the University of California at San Diego, said that this method doesn't necessarily help the burns in the healing process nor does it remove nonliving tissue from the wound like skin alternatives do. It's the only option that they've had—until now.
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