WTF Stories of the Week

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I heard about that this morning on the radio. They actually did a story on this on either House or Grey's Anatomy this season.

If it was House then I think the issue in question was chimerism which is a somewhat different thing (and within a year House, CSI, and Crossing Jordan all did shows where chimerism was the gimmick so I assume something happened to make it news in the 12 months prior to that).

In reading about this stories type of thing (fetus in fetu) on Wikipedia just now I was surprised to see it is as common at 1 in 500,000 briths. Remember that list of number of babies born in various countries each year? Well, that means this happens in India about 50 times a year. Neat.

Also at the Wikipedia page you can find reference to a 7 year old Kazakhstan boy referred to a doctor when something appeared to be moving in his stomach.