|
|
|
|
Home / Society / Issues / Health / Transplantation / Xenotransplantation
|
|
|
|
Web Sites
|
- Animal-to-Human Transplants - Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans.
www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/x-trans.htm
- 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.
www.crt-online.org
- 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".
www.xenodiaries.org
- 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.
www.linkny.com/~civitas/page56.html
- Of Pigs, Primates, and Plagues - Critique of xenotransplantation.
www.mrmcmed.org/pigs.html
- Oink if You Are For Organ Transplantation - Article by Javier Burgo which condemns the practice of xenotransplantation.
www.eurosolve.com/charity/bava/oink.html
- Setback for Animal to Human Transplants (BBC) - Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_265000/265933.stm
- Xenotransplant News - Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation.
www.linkny.com/~civitas/page87.html
- Xenotransplantation - Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news.
xenotransplant.ineu.org
- Xenotransplants and Viral Transmission - Article about the possible threat of a disease from viruses transmitted to humans from the animal organs.
www.werple.net.au/~antiviv/issue159.htm#The Hot Zone Gets Hotter
|
|
|
|
|