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Desperate parents plead for help after their son was born with 15 fingers and 16 toes

By People’s Online News A baby has been born with a total of 31 fingers and toes to shocked parents who say there were no indications of his deformities on pre-natal scans. Photo courtesy of Mail Online The three-month-old boy, nicknamed Honghong, has 15 fingers and 16 toes. Incredibly, he also has two palms on each hand, with no thumbs. His parents are now desperate to find medical treatment for him as doctors at their local hospital in Hunan, central China, tells them surgery will be extremely difficult. Photo courtesy of Mail Online Honghong has an extreme case of polydactyly. The medical condition, where children are born with extra fingers or toes, appears in approximately one in 1,000 cases. But to have so many extra digits is extremely rare. Honghong’s mother also suffers from polydactyly and has extra digits on both her hands and feet. Photo courtesy of Mail Online [...]

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