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2-Year-Old Boy Has Surgery to Remove Twin Brother From His Stomach
Breitbart ^
| 3 Oct 2013
| Jon David Kahn
Posted on 10/03/2013 1:52:18 PM PDT by Gamecock
After a 2-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital with a severely bloated stomach, doctors in China were stunned to discover that he was carrying an underdeveloped fetus inside his belly. Xiao Feng underwent an operation to "give birth" to his own parasitic twin.
According to doctors, the unborn fetus measured 20cm in width and had also formed a spine, limbs, fingers and toes. The fetus took up roughly two thirds of Xiao's stomach which made it difficult for the 2-year-old to breath.
Experts believe that Xiao's parasitic twin brother would have killed him if left untreated.
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posted on
10/03/2013 1:52:18 PM PDT
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Gamecock
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posted on
10/03/2013 1:52:54 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
To: Larry Lucido; F15Eagle
Initially surgeons though it was a Junior Mint causing the problems.
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posted on
10/03/2013 1:53:46 PM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
To: Gamecock
Only in China. They have the coolest and strangest stories. Sill like the one abut the hundreds of dead pigs floating down river.
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posted on
10/03/2013 1:54:57 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Make today a great day. Insult a liberal.)
To: Gamecock
Ha, obscure Seinfeld reference.
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posted on
10/03/2013 1:56:46 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: Gamecock
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posted on
10/03/2013 1:57:35 PM PDT
by
RWB Patriot
("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
To: Gamecock
Two years old, or two months old? The baby seems pretty small for two years old.
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posted on
10/03/2013 1:59:41 PM PDT
by
Theo
(May Christ be exalted above all.)
To: RWB Patriot
It happens. Sometimes, the parasitic twin never develops very much at all, and people carry it around their whole lives without ever knowing it is there... until some Doc spots it on an X-ray or CT scan.
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:00:59 PM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: Boogieman
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:02:55 PM PDT
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Toespi
To: Gamecock
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:03:34 PM PDT
by
Sherman Logan
(Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
To: Gamecock
That was mean. Why did he eat his twin brother?
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:07:20 PM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos...)
Is this a violation of the one-child policy?
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:08:46 PM PDT
by
Rio
(Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
To: Rio
The Asian Thaddeus S. Venture?
Venture Bros. ping!
To: DManA; Gamecock
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:31:19 PM PDT
by
jimmyo57
To: Gamecock
Hope the kid doesn't grow up to be a detective novel writer. Read it turns out bad if you have this kind of twin.
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10/03/2013 2:36:21 PM PDT
by
TheThirdRuffian
(RINOS like Romney, McCain, Christie are sure losers. No more!)
To: Boogieman
It happens. Sometimes, the parasitic twin never develops very much at all, and people carry it around their whole lives without ever knowing it is there... until some Doc spots it on an X-ray or CT scan.Or a bubopsy.
To: Gamecock
A guy at work had this with his kid.
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:44:58 PM PDT
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: EQAndyBuzz
This tumor has a name: teratoma, and it happens all over the world, not just in China.
The ability of the human embryo to become twins occasionally divides unevenly, resulting in a second ‘twin’ that is a clump of many different kinds of cells.
This phenomenon is also why the use of embryonic stem cells has proved so spectacularly unsuccessful. The cells that the researchers are trying to control are not controllable by human effort. They carry the genetic message for a human life that could last a 100 years.
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posted on
10/03/2013 2:51:56 PM PDT
by
maica
( Why deal with the Constitution? ItÂ’s written in cursive.)
To: Gamecock
Speaking of parasites:Our parasitic president.
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posted on
10/03/2013 3:03:24 PM PDT
by
Slyfox
(Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
To: Gamecock
Now there is a justifiable abortion
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posted on
10/03/2013 3:11:21 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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