Black Market Body Parts

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="post-header" style="text-align: left;"></div><div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3142133777810059137" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-67VZL_hFwj0/TWsrCV4FzzI/AAAAAAAADIQ/GfFTtZkiVic/s1600/12%252520-%252520pipelegsxray5_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578599882660630322" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-67VZL_hFwj0/TWsrCV4FzzI/AAAAAAAADIQ/GfFTtZkiVic/s400/12%252520-%252520pipelegsxray5_low.jpg" style="float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 400px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Horrified New York detectives and prosecutors took X-rays of the bottom of a human body showing that plastic pipes were inserted to replace bones taken away for sales. Police say the racket made hundreds of millions of dollars. Photo from Edit International</div><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9J6pNuH2JxI/TWsrCaKWj3I/AAAAAAAADII/KukPya2aphI/s1600/11-morgue_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578599883810967410" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9J6pNuH2JxI/TWsrCaKWj3I/AAAAAAAADII/KukPya2aphI/s400/11-morgue_low.jpg" style="float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 351px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The New York funeral parlor body stealing scheme was uncovered by a NYC Detective who noticed a concealed operating room within the funeral home when he approached the owner about a fraud charge. The police became suspicious and the grisly scheme finally came to light.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>PHOTO RON LAYTNER, EDIT INTERNATIONAL<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r223ceXSIkk/TWsqTVwG-HI/AAAAAAAADIA/sSfhMlLAy1w/s1600/01-bones_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578599075173300338" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r223ceXSIkk/TWsqTVwG-HI/AAAAAAAADIA/sSfhMlLAy1w/s400/01-bones_low.jpg" style="float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 258px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Bones like these two samples from a "tissue bank" fetch high prices in the medical field. A growing Black Market has arisen trafficking in such body parts because, unlike organs that have to be taken from a live donor, tissue, bones, and ligaments can be harvested from corpses. Biomedical Tissue Services, whose founder has been arrested, would receive upwards of $7,000 dollars for the tissues from each body supplied by the alleged crooked funeral home director Joseph Nicelli. Photo by Ron Laytner Edit International</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FuaCG17psfQ/TWsqTNSSC7I/AAAAAAAADH4/fhW7oFfg6pk/s1600/09-2kidneys_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578599072900713394" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FuaCG17psfQ/TWsqTNSSC7I/AAAAAAAADH4/fhW7oFfg6pk/s400/09-2kidneys_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 235px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">TWO CHINESE MEN ARRESTED BY THE FBI IN NEW YORK WRE CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY TO SELL HUMAN ORGANS LIKE THESE TWO KIDNEYS FOR $20,000 EACH. A US LEGAL GROUP WANTS TO LEGALIZE GIVING AWAY FREE ORGANS OF EXECUTED PRISONERS, FIRST IN AMERICA AND THEN THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>PHOTO BY RON LAYTNER, EDIT INTERNATIONAL.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G4Poe1ld4_k/TWsqTJAXUFI/AAAAAAAADHw/XeXC2BDw3o0/s1600/08-chart_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578599071751819346" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G4Poe1ld4_k/TWsqTJAXUFI/AAAAAAAADHw/XeXC2BDw3o0/s400/08-chart_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 400px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 343px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">ORGANS DEMAND BIG MONEY ON THE BLACK MARKET. DESPERATE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO PAY ALMOST ANY PRICE FOR A CHANCE TO STAY ALIVE. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>PHOTO AND ILLUSTRATION BY LANCE LAYTNER<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CaaNSSR_NSY/TWsqS2n5Y2I/AAAAAAAADHo/Rs2NxI32Cqc/s1600/07-execution_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578599066817356642" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CaaNSSR_NSY/TWsqS2n5Y2I/AAAAAAAADHo/Rs2NxI32Cqc/s400/07-execution_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 269px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3142133777810059137" style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ACCUSES THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT OF STEALING THE ORGANS OF EXECUTED PRISONERS AND THEM DISTRIBUTING THEM FOR USE AMONGST COMMUNIST PARTY LEADERS OR SELLING THEM. PHOTO BY GAMMA #00# WORLDWIDE 61737_06</div>*** FOR USAGE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL GAMMA REPRESENATIVE ***<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cZ0dts6q8Ik/TWspjH0uj6I/AAAAAAAADHg/cHyS_pQdZ_s/s1600/05-chinese_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578598246800854946" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cZ0dts6q8Ik/TWspjH0uj6I/AAAAAAAADHg/cHyS_pQdZ_s/s400/05-chinese_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 270px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />CHINESE PRISONERS ARE CAREFULLY EXECUTED - SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD TO SAVE LOWER BODY ORGANS OR SHOT THROUGH THE HEART TO SAVE EYES.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>EDIT INTERNATIONAL<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5FjeKZhd870/TWspizDlVuI/AAAAAAAADHY/9LgW3Hx3a9s/s1600/03-leg_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578598241226020578" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5FjeKZhd870/TWspizDlVuI/AAAAAAAADHY/9LgW3Hx3a9s/s400/03-leg_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 202px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 300px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3142133777810059137" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br />DOCTORS AT MIAMI'S JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL PREPARE A NEWLY-ARRIVED LEG, COMPLETE WITH KNEE, LIGAMENTS AND HIP PIVOT, FOR DELIVERY TO ANXIOUS WAITING PATIENTS. THERE WILL BE NO COST. BUT ILLEGAL SALES OF BODY PARTS ARE SPREADING ROUND THE WORLD. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>PHOTO BY RON LAYTNER, EDIT INTERNATIONAL.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Beu-1qpWHvo/TWspOCI5V4I/AAAAAAAADHQ/O20mJHDCUOk/s1600/02-vat_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578597884497581954" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Beu-1qpWHvo/TWspOCI5V4I/AAAAAAAADHQ/O20mJHDCUOk/s400/02-vat_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 176px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 300px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3142133777810059137" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3142133777810059137" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3142133777810059137" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">A DOCTOR IN MIAMI STANDS BEFORE A FROZEN VAT CONTAINING HUNDREDS OF HANDS AND FINGERS AND ANKLES AND FEET WHICH WILL HELP THOUSANDS WAITING TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS. PHOTO BY RON LAYTNER, EDIT INTERNATIONAL.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5-QQ9nLDcrk/TWsoYhndUfI/AAAAAAAADHI/-Z-FKPw5wa0/s1600/01-eyeclose_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578596965234332146" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5-QQ9nLDcrk/TWsoYhndUfI/AAAAAAAADHI/-Z-FKPw5wa0/s400/01-eyeclose_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 248px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 300px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3142133777810059137" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">A TECHNICIAN AT A HUMAN EYE BANK IN MIAMI HOLDS A PAIR OF FRESHLY-REMOVED EYES ON THEIR WAY TO SAVING THE SIGHT OF OTHERS. ORGAN GANGSTERS ARE NOW SELLING CORNEAS OF PRISONERS EXECUTED IN CHINA FOR $5,000 ON AN ILLEGAL GROWING GLOBAL MARKET. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>PHOTO BY RON LAYTNER, EDIT INTERNATIONAL.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xe1SEvGlTj4/TWsrCnKRktI/AAAAAAAADIY/xD3sD5ixnRc/s1600/13%252520-dr_mastomarino_low.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578599887300301522" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xe1SEvGlTj4/TWsrCnKRktI/AAAAAAAADIY/xD3sD5ixnRc/s400/13%252520-dr_mastomarino_low.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 300px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 232px;" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />HE WAS SENTENCED TO 18 TO 54 YEARS<br /><br />http://editinternational.com/photos.php?id=47ddbe51262c7</div></div>

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10 Really Weird and Awful Diseases

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2>1. Elephantiasis</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6031" style="width: 560px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-6031 " height="275" src="http://s9.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Elephantiasis-of-the-legs-www.sierraexpressmedia.com_.jpg" width="400" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.sierraexpressmedia.com</i></div></div>Lymphatic filiriasis, best known as Elephantiasis is characterized by an awful picture of swollen arms and legs. Mosquitoes are responsible for spreading <a href="http://green-buzz.net/science-technology/nine-nasty-noxious-bugs/">this disease</a> on over 120 million people currently. With their bite they inject warm larvae, such as Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, and B. timori, which actually cause the illness. Unfortunately, the “guests” in the blood can survive there for years. Despite the arms and legs, breasts and genitalia are also enlarged. There are still experiments for finding the cure but it’s not found yet.<br /><a name="more"></a><br /><h2>2. Pica</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6036" style="width: 510px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-6036" height="750" src="http://s9.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Pica-www.citeste-ne.ro_.jpg" width="500" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.citeste-ne.ro</i></div></div>This disorder makes people insatiable for non-food materials, such as soil, clay, feces, paper, glue, gum, coal, etc. It’s not clear yet what causes it, but there are assumptions that it is linked with mineral deficiency, especially iron. There’s no cure for it yet, but there are some medications that could reduce the symptoms to some patients.<br /><br /><h2>3. Alice in Wonderland Syndrome</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6030" style="width: 343px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-6030" height="640" src="http://s5.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/alice-in-wonderland-syndrome-www.flickr.com_.jpg" width="426" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.flickr.com</i></div></div>Alice was really in Wonderland, sometimes she was seeing small things, sometimes they were much bigger than her, but people with Alice in Wonderland Syndrome look too small and too big whatever the object is. For example, they see their own house with size of their dog’s house, they can see a bird big as dinosaur, etc. This perception disorder is a result of change in perception as opposed to the eyes themselves malfunctioning. There are medicaments that reduce the symptoms significantly.<br /><h2> </h2><h2>4. Walking Corpse Syndrome</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6029" style="width: 560px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-6029 " height="500" src="http://s6.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/zombiemob-www.derrenbrown.co_.uk_.jpg" width="550" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.derrenbrown.co.uk</i></div></div>Patients are not real walking corpses, they just think they are so. This syndrome is a mix of mental depression and suicidal tendencies. People think they have lost everything, from possessions to parts of their bodies. Most bizarre – most of them believe they’re walking corpses. They often say that they can smell their own flesh and feel worms entering in their bodies. Unfortunately antidepressants don’t help too much in<a href="http://urbantitan.com/5-diseases-that-could-turn-you-into-a-monster/"> treating this disease</a> and there’s not other usable cure.<br /><h2> </h2><h2>5. Vampire Disease</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6033" style="width: 501px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-6033" height="640" src="http://s5.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/h_vampire-www.alangibbons.net_.jpg" width="491" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;">www.alangibbons.net</div></div>Although their skin is blistering when the Sun touches it, these people don’t drink blood and are not vampires. However, they prefer to avoid any contact with the Sun, as acute attack of it can be fatal. There are several cure for this disease, every of them is used depending on the causes of it.<br /><h2> </h2><h2>6. Aquagenic Urticaria</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6038" style="width: 560px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-6038 " height="400" src="http://s8.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/water-www.themodnp.com_.jpg" width="550" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.themodnp.com</i></div> <a href="http://urbantitan.com/10-most-bizarre-allergies-in-the-world/">Aquagenic Urticaria</a> is commonly known as <a href="http://urbantitan.com/10-most-bizarre-allergies-in-the-world/">water allergy</a>, although it’s not allergy at all. It is very rare disease in which the patient becomes sensitive to non-distilled water what means feeling great pain when contact with it. The worst part is that they mustn’t cry if they don’t want their pain to grow, as tears have the same effect. Unfortunately, there’s no cure yet.</div><h2> </h2><h2>7. Necrotizing Fascilitis</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6035" style="width: 510px;"><i><img alt="" class="size-large wp-image-6035 " height="300" src="http://s7.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/necrotic_tissue-www.microbiologyspring2010.wikispaces.com_-1024x443.jpg" width="500" /></i><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.microbiologyspring2010.wikispaces.com</i></div> This is a terrible disease. Fortunately it is very rare, but the mortality rate of 73% is another awful characteristic of it. It is caused by eating bacteria that could enter the skin through the smallest paths and once it gets in, it never gets out. The bacteria then start its way and eat whatever finds on its path. The skin looks rusty, but in extreme even losing body parts is possibility.</div><h2> </h2><h2>8. Progeria</h2><div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_6037" style="width: 560px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-6037 " height="400" src="http://s6.urbantitan.com:8080/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/progeria-www.immortalhumans.com_.jpg" width="550" /><br /><div class="wp-caption-text" style="text-align: center;"><i>www.immortalhumans.com</i></div>The disease better known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome is genetic failure that causes living life on fast forward. Patients die on average of 13 years. Before that they experience some things that later life brings, such as baldness and heart diseases. It happens once in eight million births. As it was mentioned before, genetic failure causes this, so there’s no cure.</div><h2> </h2><h2>9. 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10 Really Weird and Awful Diseases

1. Elephantiasis www.sierraexpressmedia.com Lymphatic filiriasis, best known as Elephantiasis is characterized by an awful picture of swolle...

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