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Boy in China Undergoes Surgery To Remove Extra Digits
By Kwaku Adu-Poku
A six year old boy in Shenyang, China recently underwent a 6.5 hour surgery to remove 11 fingers and toes. That sounds crazy, right? Well, the boy in question (who remains unnamed) was born with a grand total of 31 digits. That's 15 fingers and 16 toes. Wow.
The boy suffers from a condition called polydactyly, a rare genetic disorder in which individuals are typically born with an extra finger beside the pinky of each hand. This boy's condition was so notable because not only was he born with 7 fingers on one hand, and 8 on the other, but his extra digits were found fused as middle fingers, rather than on the side of his hands.
While he is certainly not the only person to ever experience this mutation, for me, it raises a lot of question about how this happened. I also think its kind of interesting that we choose to remove extra digits, rather than let them be, which is more likely a normative effort than a practical one.
What do you think?
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