South China Morning Post
By Alice Yan
September 24, 2022
Doctors in southern China have successfully performed surgery to remove a rare parasite fetus, described as a “serious birth defect”, from a recently born baby.
A woman, surnamed Yan, gave birth to a boy weighing 2.9kg at the end of August in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. The boy was immediately sent to the intensive care unit after staff saw attached to his chest a parasite fetus with only arms and legs, but no head or heart, the Southern Metropolis News reported.