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NZ GOVT BAN ON XENOTRANSPLANTS COULD OPEN UP `XENOTOURISM' RISK.
(From New Zealand Press Association)
(EMBARGOED UNTIL 1AM FEB 1 NZDT)
Wellington, Feb 1 NZPA - New Zealand's Government cannot avoid all the potential risks posed by xenotransplantation -- using animal tissues in humans -- simply by banning the practice, its ethics advisors say.
The Bioethics Council said today in a discussion paper that ill New Zealanders denied such treatments in their own country could seek them overseas, then bring back home the potential risks.
These could include contaminating the blood supply if it turned out their animal organ was diseased, or even infecting other people if a ``donor'' pig organ had mutated an animal virus into one affecting humans.
The Government's proposed approach -- preventing xenotransplantation from taking place in New Zealand until the implications were fully considered -- did not specifically address the issue of xenotourism.
``Xenotourism is therefore the aspect of xenotransplantation that most urgently requires regulation,'' said the council, which is chaired by former Labour MP Jill White, of Palmerston North, who has also previously headed the Environmental Risk Management Authority (Erma).
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