Search Perform an advanced search query SOFTPEDIA
 
SOFTPEDIA
Updated one minute ago
HomeSubmit a program for being reviewedAdvertise on our websiteGet help on surfing our websitesSend us your feedbackGet information about our XML/RSS backend and how to use itBrowse the news archiveVisit our discussion forumVizitati forumul in limba romana



KLIP
  1. HOME
  2. SCIENCE
  3. TECHNOLOGY
  4. WEBMASTER
  5. SECURITY
  6. MICROSOFT
  7. LINUX
  8. APPLE
  9. GAMES
  10. TELECOMS
  11. REVIEWS
  12. LIFE & STYLE
  13. EDITORIALS
  14. INTERVIEWS
  15. RSS
Welcome!
Hello, Guest

Login if you have a Softpedia.com account.

Otherwise, register for one.

BEHAVIOR/HUMANS

Meet the Two-Faced Girl

- From India

By: Stefan Anitei, Science Editor

We do not know if it's the Bhopal accident or just a large population pool, but India comes with really weird human newborn cases.

An Indian woman has just delivered a baby girl with two faces. The girl had four eyes, two noses and two mouths. The six-day old baby girl, whose parents are Vinod and Sushma Singh,
is already being regarded as a reincarnation of the Hindu God of wisdom Ganesha (the elephant-headed god). The child was born in the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, 50 km (30 mi) north east of New Delhi.

When the locals of the remote village (called Sani) where the family of the girl reside found about this, they started singing and dancing, asking for her blessings and bringing offerings. Both the newborn girl and her mother are in good health.

This birth has occurred just two years after the birth, in a poor village in Bihar (northern India), of Lakshmi, an eight-limbed girl named so in the honor of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth.

Lakshmi attracted the attention of people eager to gain money from her deformity: a circus even tried to buy the girl, and the parents had to hide the child. Lakshmi Tatma was born with a headless, undeveloped parasitic twin joined to her pelvis, and the extra four limbs were the arms and legs of the undeveloped sister.

Lakshmi integrated the limbs, kidneys and other organs of the undeveloped fetus into her body, resulting two merged spines, four kidneys, entangled nerves, two stomach cavities and two chest cavities.

In November 2007, a team of 30 medics at a private Bangalore hospital operated Lakshmi for giving her a normal life. The doctors separated Lakshmi's spinal column, extra-limbs and kidney from that of the parasite. Now, Lakshmi has started to walk making her first assisted steps and she can sit up with no difficulty. The girl will need further operations to correct club feet and rebuild pelvic floor muscles.

On March 29, 2006, a "frog baby" with an extreme case of anencephaly was born in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district.

MORE RELATED ARTICLES: The Eight-Limbed Girl Can Walk Now! First Sex Chromosome Gene Connected to Meiosis Male Sterility The Largest Rodent Oral Pills for Coyotes and Wild Hogs! How Do Tornadoes Appear? Virgin Mary of the Dragons The Sacred Sharks Christmas Island The Most Northern Reef in America World's Oldest Bunny: It Lived 53 Million Years Ago!
 
Comments | Link here | Subscribe
Print | Send to friend
Today's News | Yesterday's News

Search:


17th March 2008, 18:06 GMT | Copyright (c) 2008 Softpedia | Contact:
Read by 12,613 user(s) | Rating: | 4 vote(s) so far | Cast your vote:
Meet the Two-Faced Girl - USER OPINIONS




We are sorry, there are no opinions available for this article.






SHARE YOUR OPINION ABOUT Meet the Two-Faced Girl

Since you are not logged on, your comments will have to be approved before being displayed.
Click here to login, or register.
Your Name:
Your Email:
Type in the result:
Your Opinion:
 


DO YOU WANT TO CONTACT US?  

If you have some comments or you want to send us some information you can send us an email directly to .
You can use the form below for the same purpose.
Your full name: (at least 3 characters)
Your email address: (at least 5 characters)
Message subject: (at least 5 characters)
Message text:
(at least 10 characters)
Type in the result:
 
 



© 2001 - 2008 Softpedia. All rights reserved.
Softpedia™ and Softpedia™ logo are registered trademarks of SoftNews NET SRL.
Copyright Information | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Contact Softpedia | Update your software | Archive