Two-headed baby born in Brazil

I thought it was tabloid junk when the headline first caught my eye, but…

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow…192245708.html

Pretty amazing.

Interseting and eye-catching, yes, but not particularly strange. Conjoined (siamese) twins occur (according to Wikipedia) in 1/50000 .. 1/100000 births, which roughly translates into 1000-2000 cases per year, globally.

Depending on how conjoined they are, the twins may be separated, but I doubt that will be possible in this case, without one of the twins dying. As mentioned in the article you may have to remove one of them for the other to survives, which calls for very difficult decisions.

Conjoined twins are rarely as conjoined as this though. The article mentions that they have separate spines, but otherwise it's basically a single body. It also says something about 14 known cases in the last 200 years.

You're right. I overlooked that part while skimming the article.

BTW, I read a bit more about conjoined twins on Wikipedia (which is actually quite good when it comes to medicine). One striking example was a pair of Nepalese (?) twins joined at the head. A successfull separation was performed when they were 1 year old. Both survived, although one of the twins died at the age of 8 due to a chest infection. The operation took 93 hours, and is described as landmark surgery. Not only because of the technical achievements, just keeping them alive during really long-term anesthesia is impressing. VERY impressing.

dr pibbur

Old.

America did it first: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K57IcN9DWXo

Just like flying. Suck it Brazil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RDnJ…layer_embedded
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow…150544531.html

same site with that two headed baby story

The way that article is written is pretty hilarious. The author constantly refers to it as a "two headed baby" (it's actually two separate conjoined twins) and the article is in the sideshow section of Yahoo news.

It is the sign we have been waiting for.

Unleash the ettins upon the west!

I used to have a Siamese twin. Then I took an arrow in the twin head.

He's going to kick ass when he's older.

What would happen if a zombie bite the siamese twins and only one of them turned into a zombie?

A Troika cRPG.

LOL

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