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19 March 2024

Teen carried unborn twin for 15 years

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A teenager in Malaysia, who had been living with the foetus of his twin inside him for the past 15 years, was successfully operated upon recently.

The foetus was a parasite with hair, hands, arms and genitalia, reported ‘AsiaOne’.

The phenomenon called ‘foetus in fetu’ never affected the teenager all these years. Earlier, his family took him to hospital when they noticed that he started developing a paunch. The foetus was discovered then, but no surgery was recommended because he had no pain.

It was only about a month back that he started experiencing sharp pains in his abdomen and started vomiting any food that he ate.

The report, quoting a source, said that the teenager would eat a lot and would joke that he had ‘to eat more to feed the baby inside him’.