today we zoom in on one clinic in Greece where police have identified as many as 75 cases of egg theft 75 cases where a woman’s eggs were allegedly taken without her consent and sold or donated to another person it’s a story that shows how the actions of one Clinic can have Ripple effects around the world that can reverberate for decades and it reveals the unique ways that the fertility industry runs not only on Capital but on trust after a year of digging into the fertility industry Bloomberg’s Vernon silver says the trade of human eggs behaves much like the trade of any commodity like any global commodity trade where you ship things where you invest where you go for the best deal and it depends on regulations and prices and in recent years as other fertility hotspots like India and Thailand tightened their regulations and after Russia began its fullscale invasion of Ukraine Vernon says some of that trade shifted to Greece Greece’s position itself as a location for medical tourism which applies to fertility treatments when it comes to eggs and the other services like surrogacy and IVF its prices are lower than in the United States for example other Western countries this is episode two of the human egg trade a special series from Bloomberg’s investigations team and the Big T podcast about the booming Global Market for human eggs