Illegal organ trafficking

The concept of my book is based on the growing illegal organ trafficking "industry". Statistics show that this has become a multibillion dollar a year operation, infiltrating just about every country. Organ trafficking can take many forms, from individuals advertising to sell organs, primarily kidneys, to people advertising for kidneys, to "agents" soliciting organ donors, primarily in the poorest countries for minimal renumeration, to abduction and murder of individuals for harvesting of their organs. Why has this industry become so pervasive? Well...just look at some of these statistics:

US Transplant statistics (2001):
-79,523 people on waiting lists for all organs
-Only 22,593 organs transplanted

European statistics:
-40,000 patients awaiting for kidney
-Only 10,000 kidneys available

Worldwide:
-700,000 people on dialysis, needing a new kidney

So, you can understand why the organ trafficking industry has become so overwhelming!

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