WTF is up with India and birthing mutants? (NSFW)

[Mizango]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3824671

By KASHIF MASOOD Associated Press Writer
BANGALORE, India Nov 6, 2007 (AP)

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Technolo..._071106_ms.jpg

Doctors began operating Tuesday on a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal body, a hospital official said.

The girl named Lakshmi is joined to a "parasitic twin" that stopped developing in the mother's womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped fetus.

A team of 30 doctors was removing the extra limbs and organs. They have separated the
fused spines and the next step will be to separate the extra limbs and then the rest of the "parasite," said Dr. Sharan Patil, the orthopedic surgeon leading the operation.

"As of now, the child has been responding very well," Patil said several hours into the operation.

Lakshmi is named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, and some in her village in the northern state of Bihar revere her.

"Everybody considers her a goddess at our village," said her father, Shambhu, who goes by one name. "All this expenditure has happened to make her normal. So far, everything is fine."

Others sought to make money from Lakshmi. Her parents kept her in hiding after a circus apparently tried to buy the girl, they said.

The complications for Lakshmi's surgery are myriad: The two spines are merged, she has four kidneys, entangled nerves, two stomach cavities and two chest cavities. She cannot stand up or walk.

"It's a big team effort of a lot of skilled surgeons who will be putting their heart and soul into solving the problem of Lakshmi," Patil said earlier in the day. "It's going to take many, many hours on a continuous basis to operate on the baby. So, these issues definitely make it complex."

Patil put the risk of losing Lakshmi between 20 and 25 percent.

Doctors at Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, where the girl is undergoing surgery, said she is popular among the staff and patients.

"She's a very cute girl," Dr. Patil Mamatha said. "She's very playful and gets along well with others."

Didn't India have the baby born that looked like a half duck, platypus baby hybrid thing a year or so ago? Seriously wtf is with this region and birth defects?

[Insert shameless Goro or Shiva jokes here]

[Kaylia]

Was about to make a joke about people saying she is a god...but then I read the article. wtf


Those story are kinda sad, feel bad for the kid.

[Olo401]

Just... wow.

[Epical]

Wow, I clicked on this thread, saw the picture load and said "WHAT. THE. FUCK." out loud. Seriously, that looks like an octopus.

[kuronosan]

I'm surprised nobody's made a handjob joke.

[Yangsing]

Obviously it's cuz they don't eat hormone injected beef.

[tornfleshofsoul]

Didn't someone post an article here some months ago saying that India had a high Incest rate? That'd explain a little..

[Anyway]

WTF is up with India and birthing mutants?

I seriously ask that every time an Indian is born.

[Akiyama]

Man, I feel bad for her. :/

[Huggo]

Great, I just had to click this thread while I was eating. ><

[Obev]

Great, I just had to click this thread while I was eating. ><

Ditto. AFK hurling.

[Ramor]

could tetrabox with those arms.
ddr anyone?
what about a three-legged race, what happens in that
the possibilities!

[Kaylia]

Didn't someone post an article here some months ago saying that India had a high Incest rate? That'd explain a little..

Pollution would probably explain it better than incest, that and the fact they have 4+ times more birth than in america

[Zosi]

That'll be one hell of a story to tell later in life, if she survives.

"Lakshmi, that's a beautiful name"

"Yeah, my parents named me that because I was born with 4 arms and 4 legs..."

"....oh."

[Khamsin]

Kinda makes me wonder if there really were four-armed people in ancient history that may have been the basis for certain images of gods/goddesses. A bit of a stretch, but you never know.

[Xanthe]

I'm surprised nobody's made a handjob joke.

Or Spider Man.

[Mizango]

Kinda makes me wonder if there really were four-armed people in ancient history that may have been the basis for certain images of gods/goddesses. A bit of a stretch, but you never know.

A stretch or not, that is a valid question.

[BRP]

NSFL tag please.

Mutants like that like 1 in a 10,000,000. So naturally, India has tons.

[Khamsin]

NSFL tag please.

Mutants like that like 1 in a 10,000,000. So naturally, India has tons.

It's not that bad. No blood, no gore, not even any private parts.

[BRP]

NSFL tag please.

Mutants like that like 1 in a 10,000,000. So naturally, India has tons.

It's not that bad. No blood, no gore, not even any private parts.

It's the only thing that ever made me cringe on BG. Even Kuya's split penis avatar didn't do that.