SIR: Despite no evidence that animal to human transplants will ever work, and with, to date, a 100 per cent failure rate, it has become clear that they are being forced onto the public with little or no mention of the all too real problems such procedures could incur, such as the possibility of animal viruses being transmitted to humans - as happened in the 1950s and 1960s when millions of people were infected with polio vaccines contaminated with the cancer-causing SV-40 virus undetected in the monkey organs used to prepare the vaccines; the possibility of further health problems due to the suppression of the immune system; and the future likelihood of contracting cancer, a disease which is endemic in transplant patients. However, this is only the latest addition to modern medicine's more nefarious of practices, which include subjecting the population at large to a regime consisting of a deluge of toxic, symptom-suppressing petrochemical drugs, mass blood-poisoning vaccination campaigns, invasive tests, and intensive radiation, all of which are routinely presented by the mass media - especially the BBC - as "essential" and "life-saving", despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. Combined with the prospect of further "medical miracles" - genetic engineering, cloning, animal to human transplants, etc - the future scenario for the nation's health is perhaps best not thought about.

The scapegoat whereby these "therapies" can be palmed off onto the public is the atrocities performed in the world's vivisection laboratories. Further information is available from the address below. A large SAE is appreciated.

Chris Pedler

Campaign for Honesty in Medicine and Research

PO Box 82, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 1YF

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