Biomedical Ethics | Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Are Dangerous and Unethical

Xenografts are organ transplants in which an animal organ is transplanted into a human patient. In the following viewpoint, the anti-animal experimentation organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) argues that animal organs should not be transplanted into humans. No animal-to-human transplants have succeeded, PETA asserts. Moreover, the organization contends, transplanting animal organs into humans may transfer deadly viruses to the human species. PETA maintains that more effort should be directed at convincing people to become organ donors than pursuing xenografts....

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