Trafficking of Human Body Parts: Serbia

I found this really insanely scary article in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com) from only a year ago about illegal body part trafficking. It details the Europeans facing "grinding poverty" who are seeking to sell their kidneys, lungs, bone marrow, and cornea among many other parts for cash.

(www1.american.edu)

The Internet provides a platform for this black-market. The asking price for a lung, for example, will pull you in around $250,000. Unfortunately, there is a lot of fraud within this system, as you can probably already imagine. There are two sides of this coin: the wealthy but sick, and the desperately poor. People will either falsify information, or not come through on their end of the deal.