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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: organ selling

organ selling stories: 3 news summaries

 In Legal Gray Zone, 
 Europeans Harvest 
 Body Parts for US 

Ukrainian company accused of gutting bodies illegally

Aug 30, 09 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A billion-dollar business of shipping body parts from Germany to the US is booming and may be illegal, Der Spiegel reports. The body harvesting is done in the Ukraine, where authorities are investigating allegations that a company has used coercion and fraud to obtain family permission to harvest bodies. The... More »

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organ harvesting • Germany • illegal activity • Ukraine • organ selling

Need Cash?
Got a Kidney?

Personal kidney sales ($50K a pop) would speed up system, Aussie doc says

May 5, 08 6:17 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Australian doctor says the young and healthy should be allowed to sell a kidney for $50,000 Australian (about $47,000 US). Otherwise, patients either languish for years without a needed transplant or travel to third-world countries where they can buy organs on the black market, the Sydney Morning ... More »

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Australia • organ transplants • kidney transplant • organ selling

Poor Pakistanis Sell Kidneys to Rich Foreigners

Organ sales are still legal in Pakistan; prices are as low as $1,700

Aug 26, 07 2:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the village of Sultanpur More, Pakistan, hundreds of people have long purple scars in their sides from selling their kidneys—for as little as $1,700—to pay off debts and to make dowry payments, the Chicago Tribune reports.  There are only a few countries that don't prohibit... More »

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Pakistan • organ harvesting • organ donor • transplant • kidney • poverty • kidney transplant • organ selling

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