Cross-Contamination risks?
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas about potential risks or cross-contamination issues that would arise from either piercing or suturing animal organs/flesh to a human? The organs/meat would be obtained from a butcher and be of human consumption quality, so logically the risk of transferring blood-borne contaminants like TB or BSE would be no greater than eating those things would carry, right?. I'm more concerned about causing infection within the piercing/suturing wounds... would this be likely? minimal risk? Any ideas?

My gut (no pun intended) feeling is that it would carry minimal risk of infection or contamination of any kind, particularly if everything is doused in chlorhexidine or iodine as usual, but I just wanted to gather other opinions or knowledge on this if possible.

Thanks :)


cross-posted to my LJ.

ETA: Please try to limit responses to fact-based contamination risk levels. I am not asking about the ethics of animal products.

UPDATE:

A friend of a friend is a meat inspector by trade, the response from him was:

Raw meat [beef, fish, chicken, etc] contains three sorts of micro-organisms you'd not be wanting to get into your system.

a. Food poisoning bacteria [E.coil, salmonella, Listeria]. These will give you the runs; vomiting, etc. In large amounts directly injected, they can kill at healthy adult.

b. Infection bugs [Golden Staph, streptococcus, etc]. These are the flesh eating bugs that cause gangrene, boils, etc

c. Bugs that cause flesh to rot [micrococcus, lactobacillus, etc]. In raw meat these will be there starting to break down the meat itself.

I cannot in any way recommend that raw meat should be put into contact with the interior of a human, except after safe preparation [such as cooking, etc] and only via the mouth.


So now we all know! And I'll be finding a different way to create the scene requested. Thanks everyone for your responses.