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Old 02-05-2005, 03:18 PM   #1
Undertoad
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2/5/2005: Peruvian "mermaid baby"




She's nine-month-old Milagros Cerron. She's got this rare condition called "mermaid syndrome"; not really that rare, it's just rare for a baby to survive this long. 1-in-60,000 to 100,000 babies are born with sirenomelia, apparently, and most complications are fatal.

Somehow this girl has survived and she is going to have risky surgery to separate and correct her legs.

How sad. Hope she does well.

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