Cases
There have only been ten documented cases of this phenomenon, though to-date at least eighty cases of this phenomenon have been written about in various records. Only three have been documented by modern medicine to have survived birth.
- On December 10, 2003, Rebeca MartÃnez was born in the Dominican Republic with this rare condition. She was the first baby born with the condition to undergo an operation to remove the second head. She died on February 7, 2004, after an 11-hour operation.
- On February 19, 2005, 10-month-old Manar Maged underwent a successful 13-hour surgery in Egypt. The under developed conjoined twin was attached to Manar's head and was facing upward. The under developed conjoined twin could smile and even blink, but doctors determined it had to be removed, and that it couldn't survive on its own. Manar has been featured on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show and in the British documentary series BodyShock. Manar died days before her second birthday due to a severe infection in her brain.
- An earlier case was the so-called "Two-Headed Boy of Bengal," who was born in 1783 and died of a cobra bite in 1787. His skull remains in the collection of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of London.
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