There’s an article over on abcnews that describes a man who had his twin brother growing in him for 36 years. (Uhh, eww?) But that’s not the interesting part. My buddy Zach points out the similarity of the text from the article and a related wikipedia article. First, the wikipedia article:
Fetus in fetu (or Foetus in foeto) describes an extremely rare abnormality that involves a fetus getting trapped inside of its twin. It continues to survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cord-like structure that leeches its twin’s blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.
And the abcnews article:
It is an extremely rare abnormality that involves a fetus getting trapped inside of its twin. The trapped fetus can survive as a parasite even past birth by forming an umbilical cord-like structure that leeches its twin’s blood supply until it grows so large that it starts to harm the host, at which point doctors usually intervene.
I wonder who came first, or of they are both taking from somewhere else. The last edit on the wikipedia page is from July of 2006. I wonder if the abcnews article is recycled from something earlier as well.
