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Report of 'organ tourism' stirs new Japan-China controversy

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   February 17, 2009

Chinese authorities are investigating whether 17 Japanese tourists had received illegal kidney and liver transplants in China. The country in 2007 banned all transplants for foreigners, called "organ tourists," since approximately 1.5 million Chinese are on waiting lists for transplants.

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