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Pakistani doctors are battling the odds to save a newborn baby born with a rare genetic condition that has left him with six legs.Baby was one half of a conjoined twin who did not completely develop in the womb.Birth defects like the Mermaid syndrome, a deformity where the legs are fused together, Craniopagus, a phenomenon where twins are joined at the head, and Dicephalic parapagus, a condition of having two heads, occur rarely but prove challenging to the medical world.More images on these rare congenital disorders.
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This handout photograph released by the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) on April 16, 2012, shows a newly-born child with six legs as he lies in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward at a hospital in Karachi. Doctors in Pakistan are fighting to save the life of a baby boy born with six legs because of a rare genetic condition, hospital officials said.AFP PHOTO/NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH
The boy was born to the wife of an X-ray technician a week ago, Jamal Raza, the director of National Institute of the Child Health in Karachi , told reporters.\"It is not one baby actually. They are two, one of them is premature,\" he said.A doctor at the institute, who did not wish to be named, said the extra limbs were the result of a genetic disease which would affect only one in a million or more babies.
A two-headed born baby is pictured in Anajas, northern Brazil December 21, 2011. Doctors in Brazil said on Wednesday said they are unsure whether they can operate on a baby born with two heads, although the newborn boy is in stable condition. The \"twins\", named Jesus and Emanuel, have two brains, two backbones and a single heart. REUTERS/JR Avelar/Handout
The abandoned baby boy with the rare \"mermaid syndrome\", a defect in which the legs are born fused together, at the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital in Changsha, central China's Hunan province 16 November 2006. Sirenomelia, or \"mermaid syndrome\", is a rare congenital defect occurring in one out of every 70,000 births, and the condition is almost always fatal within days of delivery due to serious defects in vital organs.
Maria de Guadalupe Angolo and Maria de Jesus Angolo, a two-headed infant is attended to by a nurse at the Hospital Infantil August 2, 1996, in Mexico City. She was born July 26, 1996, in Tijuna Mexico. The newborn is in critical but stable condition, and has only one thorax, a single heart, intestines and a single set of legs and arms. Doctors have said separation surgery is out of the question. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Housewife Radha Gupta holds her one month-old Siamese twins, Radha, left, and Krishna, in her in-laws' house on the outskirts of Bombay Monday Feb. 8, 1999. The parents, family elders and neighbors claim that the two-headed baby is a re-incarnation of Lord Vishnu, a Hindu mythological god, while medical doctors say that the survival and normal life of the child depends on a correction operation wherein one of the heads will be removed. Radha and her husband Vijay, have refused the operation. (AP Photo/Sherwin Crasto)
Undated handout photo released Sunday Sept.18, 2011 by British charity Facing the World of conjoined twins Rital and Ritag Gaboura (left to right not given) before they were successfully separated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Facing the World says Rital and Ritag Gaboura were born in Sudan with the tops of their heads stuck together. Twins born joined at the head _ known as craniopagus twins _ occur in about one in 2.5 million births and successful attempts to split them are rare. However, the condition can lead to serious medical problems and the charity said the twins' parents asked for help funding surgery to pull the two apart. The charity said Sunday the two were finally separated last month and appear to be healthy. (AP Photo / Facing the World, ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLY
Undated handout photo released Sunday Sept.18, 2011 by British charity Facing the World of conjoined twins Rital and Ritag Gaboura (left to right not given) after they were successfully separated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Facing the World says Rital and Ritag Gaboura were born in Sudan with the tops of their heads stuck together. Twins born joined at the head _ known as craniopagus twins _ occur in about one in 2.5 million births and successful attempts to split them are rare. However, the condition can lead to serious medical problems and the charity said the twins' parents asked for help funding surgery to pull the two apart. The charity said Sunday the two were finally separated last month and appear to be healthy. (AP Photo / Facing the World, ho)
Lakshmi looks on at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India, Monday, Nov. 5, 2007. Doctors began operating Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007, on the two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs, in an extensive surgery that they hope will leave the girl with a normal anatomy, a hospital official said.(AP Photo)
Shambu, feeds his two-year-old daughter Lakshmi before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007. Lakshmi, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs was discharged from the hospital after a successful operation where doctors removed her extra limbs. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Peruvian doctor Luis Rubio play with baby Milagros Cerron, nine-month-old, in a public hospital in Lima, Peru in this Feb. 4, 2005 file photo. Peruvian surgeons have performed an initial operation to separate the fused legs of a 9-month-old girl known as the \"baby mermaid\" because of her rare birth defect, her doctor said Thursday. Dr. Luis Rubio said his team inserted three silicone bags on Tuesday into the tight coating of skin around Milagros Cerron's legs.(AP Photo/Martin Mejia, FILE)
