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Baby in China born with tail

Posted on Wednesday, 10 March, 2010 | 26 comments

Surgeons in China have successfully operated to remove a five-inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl.

The highly rare case saw the tail actually grow larger after the girl was born rather than smaller, doctors at the hospital have said that the odds were one in a million of such a circumstance occuring.

The little girl, called Hong Hong, was born with the tail but it had since doubled in size, reports the Anhui Market Daily. Her father, Hou, of Lixing town in eastern China's Anhui province, said he had been "shocked" to see the tail at birth. "I wanted to cut it off when she was born, but doctors suggested we wait some time, as a newborn is too weak to take such a surgery," he said.

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#22 Posted by SolarPlexus on 12 March, 2010, 2:51
The girls name is Hong-Hong?? So thats where they get inspiration from.... LOL

#23 Posted by Codehook on 12 March, 2010, 4:09
You can rely on me to lower the tone

#24 Posted by Copasetic on 12 March, 2010, 5:07
Actually all people start life off with tails. And a fairly significant portion of humans have the genes for 'tail removal' turned off. You'd maybe expect to see things like this more often in China, because the birth rate is so high.

#25 Posted by SolarPlexus on 12 March, 2010, 21:21
hey that makes sense

#26 Posted by emosonic on 16 March, 2010, 12:40
OMG! The chinese are DIGIMON! XD or pokemon but pokemon can't de evolve

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