Well I just read a new post from yahoo news and it made me wonder how many babies are born in the world with three arms. The news article (which can be found here: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06062006/323/doctors-china-remove-baby-s-third-arm.html ) reports is as if it was a regular occurance! The third arm has been successfully removed by the surgeons in China, but how many other babies are born each year with such a deformation? On ABC's news website Dr. Larry Hollier has said that there are no reliable statistics to say how common extra limbs or extremeties are, especially since malformed fetuses are often aborted either spontaneously or surgically and therefore are not reported accurately.(Picture from ABC News at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2021142&page=1
5 comments:
erm how do they no which arm to chop off?
It is usually decided by considering both arms and selecting the one that show less development or nerve activity.
wel wouldnt 3 arms be mre usefull?
Well at least he would be better at table tennis and other things
The problem is that he has no nerve connections into the one arm, hence they can select the one to chop off.
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