Arab Gives Birth to Snake

[Earl]

A woman in Saudi Arabia has given birth to this reptilian looking little monster just days after predicting she would give birth to a snake. The child's condition is called harlequin type ichthyosis and the prognosis isn't good. Most harlequin babies die within days, but if they're lucky they might lead a long and miserable life as a lizard-freak.

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http://www.morningstarr.co.uk/forum/...hantiasis.html

[Alpha]

ohh, that is awful, poor little thing,

[timey]

My God. That is so horrible.

[Earl]

Even if the kiddie survives, adolescence doesn't look like much fun.

[Ck]

That's really weird and sad at the same time.

[timey]

I was sceptical at first but read it up and on Wikipedia there is an article which includes this:

"On Thursday, April þe 5, 1750, I went to see a most deplorable object of a child, born the night before of one Mary Evans in 'Chas'town. It was surprising to all who beheld it, and I scarcely know how to describe it. The skin was dry and hard and seemed to be cracked in many places, somewhat resembling the scales of a fish. The mouth was large and round and open. It had no external nose, but two holes where the nose should have been. The eyes appeared to be lumps of coagulated blood, turned out, about the bigness of a plum, ghastly to behold. It had no external ears, but holes where the ears should be. The hands and feet appeared to be swollen, were cramped up and felt quite hard. The back part of the head was much open. It made a strange kind of noise, very low, which I cannot describe. It lived about forty-eight hours and was alive when I saw it."

Exactly the same as in the video. It's like something out of 'V'.

[A_B]

Yeah, I've just had a read about it on wikipedia as well because I've never heard about it.

It's awful because it doesn't seem real. I had a quick look on youtube and found a baby being fed that suffers from it. It makes it more real for some reason.

[Alpha]

Can they actually see out of those eyes? or are they blind?

[timey]

Can they actually see out of those eyes? or are they blind?

I'm not sure. The article about the British girls with the condition said that they were practically blind, but this was due to infections behind the eyelids. It doesn't look like those eyes would see much though.

[Gemo52]

I was trying to think when I'd heard about this condition before and it was a programme about two sisters suffering from the condition Hannah and Lucy Betts.