Xenotransplantation
Xenotransplantation Links
- Oink if You Are For Organ Transplantation Article by Javier Burgo which condemns the practice of xenotransplantation.
- 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.
- Xenotransplantation Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news.
- Xenotransplants and Viral Transmission Article about the possible threat of a disease from viruses transmitted to humans from the animal organs.
- Setback for Animal to Human Transplants (BBC) Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants.
- 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".
- Animal-to-Human Transplants Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans.
- Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues Critique of xenotransplantation.
- Xenotransplant News Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation.
- 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.
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