Herbal cells may settle down and parasitize on the organism of a human or an animal
Geneticists say that mutations seriously change the set of chromosomes, and people with mutations can thus hardly be called humans. In Yerevan in the former Soviet republic of Armenia, 18-year-old girl Narine Aivasyan shocked doctors with her unusual disease. The girl complained about an abscess on her wrist that had been hurting her for a long period already. When doctors opened the bandage on Narine's hand they saw two very thin thorns sticking out of the hand

A 14-year-old Haitian girl was undergoing a groundbreaking operation Wednesday to remove a 16-pound tumor-like mass from her face
The teen suffers from a rare form of Polyostotic Fibrous Dysplasia, a nonhereditary, genetic disease that causes bone to become like a big a bowl of jelly with some bone inside. If the operation is successful, doctors will seek to reconstruct the right side of her face and then later reconstruct her swollen jaw. The process will cost her teeth, one of which protrudes through her hugely swollen bottom lip

Separation of craniopagus twins – people fused at the head – still poses the highest difficulty for surgeons worldwide
The whole world was watching the unique surgery to separate adult Iranian craniopagus twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani fused at the brain. The operation was performed for the first time in history in 2003. Unfortunately, the surgery turned out to be fatal for them. Separation of craniopagus twins – people fused at the head – still poses the highest difficulty for surgeons worldwide. Russian doctor Alexander Konovalov performed the first surgery on craniopagus twins. Sisters Vilia and Vitalia Tamulyavichus from Lithuania were born with their fontanels fused. At that, their faces were lying in different planes: when one girl was lying with her stomach down, the other was lying on her side. Today, the girls are 15; they are happy and sociable teenagers making good progress at school

The child, born with six fingers on each hand, was born having both female and male genitals
In the Russian settlement of Barashevo lives an 11-year-old girl named Zhenya, but the looks of the child suggest that Zhenya is a boy. Neighbors say that the malformation occurred because Zhenya's mother was an alcoholic and never stopped drinking vodka during the whole period of her pregnancy. Last spring, Zhenya's mother died of alcoholic intoxication

The doctors originally believed that the twins had one single spine, one pelvis, one liver and one single digestive system
Doctors conducted a detailed medical examination of the conjoined girls and concluded that it would be possible to separate the Siamese twins. The girls' mother pins all her hopes on doctors' skills and God's mercy. When the doctors scanned internal organs of the Siamese twins, they found out the bodies of the twins were joined with the help of muscular tissues only. Two babies, Veronica and Christina, were born three months ago in Russia's Siberia

The shocked doctors did not know how to explain the horrible news to the parents
Newly-fledged parents did not even think that they would have to experience such horror. The woman did not have any problems with her pregnancy, the childbirth ended without any complications either. When Alexander Smirnov (aged 25) realized what happened, he suffered a nervous breakdown. It took the young man three days to come to his senses and visit his grieving wife at the hospital and see the baby, the sex of which embarrassed the medics

The ongoing aggravation of the ecological situation in the world often results in the appearance of unusual creatures, some of which prove to be rather viable. The news about human or animal babies born with striking physical deformities always attract people's attention, in spite of the fact that such news reports appear on a regular basis

The fact of the third eye's existence can be found in modern embryology
The image of the third eye can be seen on foreheads of ancient divine creatures displayed on the walls and sculptures of Buddhist temples. Some researchers think that it is memory of extraterrestrial human ancestors (gods). Legends say that the all-seeing eye bestowed them with such remarkable capabilities as clairvoyance and telepathy. A lot of contemporary people, mainly Buddhists, devote their lives to retrieve the lost divine possibilities

Needless to say that there is no normal man in the world who would agree to bid farewell to his genitals and have his penis cut off. It is an open secret that the male organ is considered to be the object of eternal pride for all normal men living on Earth. However, if there is an experienced surgeon, who guarantees a considerable increase of the penis size after such an execution, some men would probably take a risk to experience the miraculous genital reincarnation

The little girl's body was placed in a container of formalin, from where it is still gazing at the world with the only one big blue eye
It was an absolutely normal woman that gave birth to the incredible mutant-baby, which could be compared to a Cyclops. The female creature was covered with thick hair; it had only one eye in the center of its forehead and a small trunk that was growing on the head above the eye. The middle-aged mother of the unusual child had a preterm delivery. Doctors would not have time to take her to the maternity hospital