Thousands more families were affected by the failure at a Cleveland fertility center than previously thought. The University Hospitals Fertility Center has now admitted 4,000 frozen eggs and embryos were damaged beyond repair, despite saying 2,000 when the scandal emerged three weeks ago. The University Hospital in Ohio and another fertility clinic in San Francisco experienced equipment failures on the same day that may have damaged hundreds of frozen eggs and embryos, something that a fertility expert called a stunning coincidenceHOW DOES EGG FREEZING WORK? A San Francisco fertility clinic said thousands of frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged in a liquid nitrogen failure in a storage tank on the same day. The Ashes said they stored two embryos at a University Hospitals fertility clinic in suburban Cleveland after Elliott's cancer diagnosis in 2003.

Source: Daily Mail March 27, 2018 12:46 UTC