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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 1, 1998)

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