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The right arm of Karl Merk, the world’s only transplant recipient of two full arms, is pictured as Merk gives a press conference on October 8, 2008 at the teaching hospital of the Technical University in Munich, southern Germany. Merk appeared in public to talk about the success of the procedure, calling the feeling of being whole again “indescribable”. Karl Merk, a dairy farmer, had lived without arms for six years since a work accident led to the amputation of both arms. AFP PHOTO DDP/LENNART PREISS GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read LENNART PREISS/AFP/Getty Images)