A Danish sperm donor passed a severe genetic disorder to five children after tests did not detect it and the fertilisation clinic failed to act on evidence that a baby had been diagnosed with the illness.
The man, known only as “donor 7042”, fathered 43 children, in breach of rules limiting the number to 25, after giving sperm to Copenhagen’s Nordisk Cryobank clinic.
But as well as fertilising the clinic’s clients, the donor was also transmitting the tumour-producing nerve disorder known as Neurofibromatosis type I (NF1) or Von Recklinghausen’s disease. Read full article.
