Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Cyclops Baby Dies

It seems as though I am breaking this story in North America.

The cyclopic little girl born almost a month ago in Chennai, India has died according to a report filed on September 11, 2006 with NewIndPress.com. The exact date of her death is unclear, however the article states it was 10 days previous.

The baby girl, who caused a major media and Blogosphere frenzy, was diagnosed with a rare chromosomal disorder known as cyclopia at birth. She was born with a single eye in the center of her forehead, no nose and her brain fused into a single hemisphere.

While the average life expectancy for such and infant is three days, this child lived for nearly a month, the longest surviving case in history.

‘She was losing weight and had to breathe and feed via a tube’. Doctors at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital, ‘The parents took away the child though we requested them to preserve the body’.

The parents do not want their child to become a museum specimen; it was their first child after six years of marriage.

It is a shame that, while her birth was everywhere, the passing of this unique and stong willed little girl has not garnered the same press.

Image: a modified photo credited to Scott Carney, taken from Wired News.
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Written by J. Tithonus Pednaud
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