Baby Boy Born With Six Legs In Karachi

A newly baby boy born with six legs in Karachi on April 16, 2012. 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.

The boy was born to the wife of an X-ray technician at last week, 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 of children.

Doctors in a Karachi hospital have successfully removed the extra limbs of a baby boy who was born with six legs.The operation lasted for about two hours, and the baby is now in stable condition, doctors at the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in Karachi said on Thursday.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.