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Mousey Girl 04-08-2008 04:17 PM

no, her name is Dawn.

Kevy Baby 04-08-2008 05:31 PM

duh

Kevy Baby 04-08-2008 06:09 PM

And the world gets another politician
 
Baby with 2 faces born in north India
Doctors say infant with rare condition is doing well

Quote:

SAINI SUNPURA, India - A baby with two faces was born in a northern Indian village, where she is doing well and is being worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, her father said Tuesday.
Whole story.

JWBear 04-08-2008 06:19 PM

:eek:

innerSpaceman 04-08-2008 06:44 PM

Well, then I'm glad she was born in India ... rather than say, oh, Sparta.

BarTopDancer 04-08-2008 07:33 PM

Did you see the other baby in that article?

I wonder why so many birth defects are happening in India.

wendybeth 04-08-2008 08:19 PM

While I'm fairly certain there are a lot of conditions such as pollution, poor diet and such could be the culprit, I suspect it's really a numbers game. The sheer volume of babies born in India each day has to be enormous, thus increasing the odds of oddities.

alphabassettgrrl 04-08-2008 09:01 PM

I wonder if both faces are functional. Do they have different personalities?

Morrigoon 04-08-2008 09:17 PM

Apparently both faces blink and drink

Alex 04-08-2008 09:24 PM

I was made curious. And when I get curious I do pointless research. And having done that I share it with people who don't care. India has a population of 1.1 billion. They have an annual birth rate of 23 births per 1000 people. Resulting in 25.3 million babies born each year.

Here's the number for the top 20 countries. A baby born to a top 20 country has almost a 1/3 chance of being born in India. I suspect China also has a lot of interesting defects but the information infrastructure probably isn't as good at getting the word out.

India - 25.3 million babies born
China - 17.0 million
Nigeria - 5.9 million
Pakistan - 4.4 million
Indonesia - 4.3 million
United States - 4.2 million
Bangladesh - 3.9 million
Brazil - 3.6 million
Ethiopia - 2.9 million
Philippines - 2.3 million
Mexico - 2.1 million
Egypt - 1.8 million
Vietnam - 1.6 million
Russia - 1.5 million
Iran - 1.4 million
Turkey - 1.3 million
Japan - 1.1 million
Thailand - .92 million
France - .78 million
Germany - .67 million


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