Parts is Parts

...Battisti was informed that the cadaver bone that was implanted in her back may have been infected with various viruses - the result of what investigators say was a large-scale scheme in which corpses were cut up and body parts illegally sold.

...The Long Island woman now claims she contracted syphilis from the bone implant and plans to sue. The hospital adamantly denies the allegation.

...Both the FDA and hospital officials, while suggesting certain patients should get tested for viruses as a precaution, insisted the risk of becoming ill from tainted tissue is minuscule.

But some of those patients are not comforted, said Battisti's attorney, Jeffrey S. Lisabeth.

"It really freaks them out," he said.

The National Zombie Association declined to comment for this weblog.