Obscure, but interesting

This week in history, 25 years ago, a baby born with Blake's heart condition received a heart transplant from a baboon. She died weeks after the transplant, but the encouraging piece of the article below (from 1984) is that it refers to hypoplastic left heart syndrome as a FATAL disease. Aren't we lucky that isn't the case anymore?!
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Stephanie Fae Beauclair, known to the world as "Baby Fae," dies on November 16, 1984, two weeks after an initially successful operation to replace her failing heart with that of a baboon.

Baby Fae was born premature on October 14, in Barstow, California, with a fatal condition known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Fae's mother, Teresa, took her home for the few weeks the infant had been given to live, when she learned of the pioneering work of Dr. Leonard Bailey. Bailey had experimented with cross-species transplantation.

On October 26, Bailey successfully transplanted a baboon heart into Fae, an astonishing medical and scientific achievement. The baby was in good health for two weeks, when her organs began to falter. She ultimately dies of kidney failure.

The experimental operation was sensationalized by the media and widely condemned on moral grounds, from the Vatican to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Fae's mother keeps her burial secret out of fear that a funeral will attract protests from animal rights activists.