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.
A woman holds her newly-born grandson, who has six legs, for a photograph at her home in Sukkur in Pakistan
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.
