Animal-to-Human Transplants - http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/x-trans.htm
Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans. |
Campaign for Responsible Transplantation - http://www.crt-online.org/
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 - http://www.xenodiaries.org/
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 - http://web.linkny.com/~civitas/page56.html
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 - http://www.mrmcmed.org/pigs.html
Critique of xenotransplantation. |
Setback for Animal to Human Transplants (BBC) - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/265933.stm
Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants. |
Xenotransplant News - http://web.linkny.com/~civitas/page61.html
Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation. |
Xenotransplantation - http://xenotransplant.ineu.org
Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news. |