Thursday, August 24, 2006

Private: Strange Half-Formed Creature Removed from Indian Man’s Stomach

Wow. Check out the video. It doesn't show much, but enough to believe the story.
abc_kumar_060822_sp.jpg[36 year old] Sanju Bhagat's stomach was once so swollen he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. ...
Living in the city of Nagpur, India, Bhagat said he'd felt self-conscious his whole life about his big belly. But one night in June 1999, his problem erupted into something much larger than cosmetic worry.

An ambulance rushed the 36-year-old farmer to the hospital. Doctors thought he might have a giant tumor, so they decided to operate and remove the source of the bulge in his belly.

... One doctor recalled that day in the operating room. "He just put his hand inside and he said there are a lot of bones inside," she said. "First, one limb came out, then another limb came out. Then some part of genitalia, then some part of hair, some limbs, jaws, limbs, hair." Inside Bhagat's stomach was a strange, half-formed creature that had feet and hands that were very developed. Its fingernails were quite long.

"We were horrified. We were confused and amazed," Mehta said.


A Mutated Body Within a Body


fetusinman.jpg At first glance, it may look as if Bhagat had given birth. Actually, Mehta had removed the mutated body of Bhagat's twin brother from his stomach. Bhagat, they discovered, had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions ? fetus in fetu. It is an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cordlike structure that leaches its twin's blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.

According to Mehta, there are fewer than 90 cases of fetus in fetu recorded in medical literature. - abcnews

Here is another fetus in fetu that is interesting. Puts things in perspective, doesn't it? We are just blobs of cells. Those cells organize into tissues and organs due to a code. That genetic code can get seriously messed up, and when it does, the cells will follow. This is easy for science to explain, but religion? If you believe in God, why does God make such things? What particular combinations of human cells have a soul in your world view?
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