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9-month-old with rare "mermaid syndrome"
Filed under: Your Pregnancy, Health & Safety: Babies
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is linking to a story about a Peruvian baby, nicknamed "Little Mermaid," who has a extremely rare physical abnormality
called sirenomelia. Babies with sirenomelia are born with
their legs fused together, most not living more than a few hours. Nine-month-old Milagros Cerron will undergo
surgery on February 28th to seperate her legs. She is one of only a handful of the estimated 1-in-60,000 to
100,000 people born with "mermaid syndrome" to have lived this long.
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12-18-2005 @ 7:08PM
Heather said...that is so sad...i want to know how the person is born like that...what causes it to be that way...i pray for the family of this little girl
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