Doctors battle to save one-in-a-million baby who was born with SIX legs
By LAURA COX
PUBLISHED: 16:32 EST, 16 April 2012 | UPDATED: 21:08 EST, 16 April 2012
Pakistani doctors are battling the odds to save a newborn baby born with a rare genetic condition that has left him with six legs.
The one-week-old boy is believed to be one of parasitic twins.
His conjoined twin was born prematurely and incompletely developed, which resulted in the second child having the extra legs, said Jamal Raza, director of the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, to News.com.
Raza added that they were planning to operate on the boy and were considering asking for help from foreign experts with more experience in the rare disease, believed to afflict just one in one million babies.
He tried to clarify that the baby did not have six legs – he had two legs and the other four belonged to the other twin. READ MORE HERE
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shaylautter - This reminds me of The Human Centipede. ;alskdjf;laskjdfla;sdf. Man this poor baby is either not going to live very long, or is going to live a full life and have to adapt to having 6 legs.
crash - Hurry squash it before it multiplies.