Greek Police Say Eggs Were Stolen from IVF Clinic Patients (1)

A Greek police probe of human egg theft uncovered repeated instances of trafficking in human genetic tissue at a clinic on the island of Crete that had once been a hub of the international fertility trade.

The national police said it had identified “75 cases with 11 victims” in which eggs and sperm were trafficked without the knowledge of the donors or the recipients, according to a press release Monday.

In two such cases, police found that embryos were created with “eggs from the same woman and sperm from the same man, with this identical genetic material being distributed to ...