Two-Headed Baby Flown to Hospital for Hernia Surgery
A two-headed baby born in the southern Venezuelan town of Ciudad Bolivar last month has left the hospital for the first time and traveled to Caracas for a hernia operation, doctors said.
The baby, accompanied by his father, 29-year-old factory worker Isidro Martinez, was flown to the La Carlota military airport in a plane loaned by the U.S. Embassy.
The baby, baptized and registered as two people--Pedro and Jesus Martinez Fuenmayor--has two stomachs, two hearts and two spinal columns inside one body with two arms and legs. The two heads react separately to stimuli and both have been feeding normally.
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