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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".
http://www.xenodiaries.org/
Critique of xenotransplantation.
http://www.mrmcmed.org/pigs.html
Details of a petition filed by the Campaign for Responsible Transplantation.
http://www.linkny.com/~civitas/page87.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.
http://www.linkny.com/~civitas/page56.html
Includes a survey, list of people active in the field, publications and news.
http://xenotransplant.ineu.org
Information about the procedures involved and the risk it may have for humans.
http://www.heureka.clara.net/gaia/x-trans.htm
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.
http://www.crt-online.org/
Article about a moratorium, ordered by the Council of Europe, on clinical tests of animal organ transplants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/265933.stm
Article by Javier Burgo which condemns the practice of xenotransplantation.
http://www.davidicke.net/medicalarchives/badmed/vivisection.html