Baby With Single Eye And Missing Nose Born In Egypt

A baby boy with one lidless eye and no nose was born at a hospital in the north-eastern town of El Senbellawein, in Egypt.
A baby is suffering from cyclopia, a congenital disorder characterized by the failure of the embryonic forebrain to divide the orbits of the eye into two cavities. An unusual birth defect is named after the mythologcal giants with a single large eye in the middle of their foreheads.

A baby has been born in Egypt with the rare birth defect cyclopia

It’s extremely rare! Its incidence is 1 in 16,000 in born animals and 1 in 250 in embryos. The boy is now treated at hospital, where his parents are receiving counselling. Besides a malformed lidless eye and nose, the child also had other severe deformities not compatible with life.

Doctors belive that the boy’s deformity was caused by radiation exposure in the womb or by  a combination of medicines taken by the mother during pregnancy. Unfortunately, the boy is not expected to survive more than a few days.

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