xenotransplantation

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• - Article by Javier Burgo which condemns the practice of xenotransplantation.
  
• - Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Critique of xenotransplantation.
  
• - 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
  
• - Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation.
  
• - Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news.