See also:

• Society: Issues: Animal Welfare: Animal Experiments - Vivisection  (220)
• Society: Issues: Science and Technology: Biotechnology: Genetics  (138)

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.

Oink if You Are For Organ Transplantation - - Article by Javier Burgo which condemns the practice 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)

Xenotransplants and Viral Transmission - - Article about the possible threat of a disease from viruses transmitted to humans from the animal organs. (June 1, 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 1, 1998)