The urban legend As an urban legend  the story has been around since at least the early 1990s and  mostly involves the theft of one or both of the victims kidneys. According to Jan Harold Brunvand it's possible that the story originated due to a news story wherein a Turkish man, Ahmet Koc, claimed to have had his kidney stolen at a hospital but had in fact sold his kidney and was unhappy at the amount of money he'd been paid. There is certainly a worldwide organ trafficking issue but actual organ theft is highly unlikely. Benjamin Radford notes that organ transplantation is extremely complicated,  requires specific matches  coupled with fairly tight time frames, and  highly specialized medical training. As such, the common variations on the legend where either a lone traveler is drugged or otherwise subdued or where a child is kidnapped and harvested against their will are simply not possible scenarios for such theft to occur.
The urban legend As an urban legend , the story has been around since at least the early 1990s and it mostly involves the theft of one or both of the victims kidneys. According to Jan Harold Brunvand it's possible that the story originated due to a news story in which a Turkish man, Ahmet Koc, claimed that his kidney had been removed while he was staying at a hospital but in reality, he had sold his kidney and was unhappy with the amount of money he'd been paid. There is certainly an worldwide organ trafficking issue but actual organ theft is highly unlikely. Benjamin Radford notes that organ transplantation is extremely complicated, it requires specific matches to be coupled with fairly tight time frames, and it also requires highly specialized medical training. As such, the common variations on the legend where either a lone traveler is drugged or otherwise subdued or where a child is kidnapped and harvested against their will are simply not possible scenarios for such theft to occur.
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