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Animal-to-Human Transplants
Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans.
Campaign for Responsible Transplantation
An international coalition of physicians, scientists, and public interest groups opposing xenotransplantation because of the risk of transferring deadly animal viruses to the human population.
Diaries of Despair
On September 21 2000, Uncaged Campaigns and the British national paper Daily Express produced what they describe as "one of the most devastating exposés of animal experimentation ever to occur: the secret history of pig-to-primate organ transplants".
New Pig Virus Capable of Infecting Humans
Australian scientists sounded a new warning against cross-species transplants after two piggery workers were found to be infected with a previously unknown virus, which had caused stillbirths and brain and spinal cord defects in pigs.
Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues
Critique of xenotransplantation.
Oink if You Are For Organ Transplantation
Article by Javier Burgo which condemns the practice of xenotransplantation.
Setback for Animal to Human Transplants (BBC)
Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants.
Xenotransplant News
Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation.
Xenotransplantation
Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news.