AR-News: (Asia) CHINA SHOULD HEED WHO WARNINGS ON TRANSPLANT ORGANS

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Activists say illegal trafficking on the rise, animal-to-human organs cause 
for concern 
Two prominent Chinese activists have warned that attempts to meet the needs 
of patients for donated organs in China are subject to all the dangers 
stipulated by WHO, including illegal organ trafficking, RFA's Mandarin service 
reports. 
Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) have warned this week of the 
dangers of transplanting animal organs into humans in the wake of fresh cases 
of SARS and avian flu in several Asian countries, calling for careful 
regulation of such research programs immediately. 


full story:
http://origin.rfaweb.org/front/article.html?service=eng&encoding=10&id=126287



"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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Male meat-eaters have a 50% chance of dying of a heart attack. Vegetarian men 
have a 4% risk. US vegetarians have cholesterol levels 14% lower than 
meat-eaters; vegans (those who don't consume meat or dairy products) have levels 35% 
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