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Open Directory - Society: Issues: Health: Transplantation: Xenotransplantation

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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".
Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues
- Critique 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.
Xenotransplantation
- Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news.
Xenotransplant News
- Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation. (December 10, 1998)
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. (March 01, 1998)