Monday, March 22, 2010

Bhagat - The Man with Twin Babies in Stomach

Sanju Bhagat's from city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat, his stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe.



Inside Bhagat's stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Its fingernails were quite long.

Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions -- fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.

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