Desperate Americans buy kidneys from Peru poor in fatal trade

May 17, 2011
by Tom Gallagher

If there is one thing that should unite all Americans, -- in the North, Central and South -- it is ending the "growing and illicit market for organ transplants that spans the globe."

Here's a sobering report from Bloomberg:

"In the illegal organ trade, brokers scour the world’s slums, preying on the poor with promises of easy money and little risk in exchange for a kidney. Inside hospitals, people are injured or killed by botched surgery as doctors place money above ethics, criminal investigators say."

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