Baby with six legs born in Pakistan

A newly-born child, who has six legs, rests on his grandmother’s lap at his family home in Sukkur in Pakistan’s Sindh province April 14, 2012.
A baby born in Pakistan’s Sindh province has six legs, with a doctor assessing that the removal of the parasitic limbs could be a “serious and time-consuming medical exercise”. Birth defects like the Mermaid syndrome, a deformity where the legs are fused together, Craniopagus, a phenomenon where twins are joined at the head, and Dicephalic parapagus, a condition of having two heads, occur rarely but prove challenging to the medical world. Here are some instances of successful treatment of congenital diseases.