湖北年輕媽媽懷罕見"人魚寶寶" 無腿有尾巴!

A young woman terminated her pregnancy after six months when doctors told her she was carrying a mermaid-like foetus, it has been reported.

據報道，當醫生告知其肚子裏是一個類似美人魚的胎兒時，一位懷孕6個禮拜的年輕女士停止了妊娠。

The 23-year-old took the action after a scan at the Health Care Center for Women and Children in Yichang City, in Central China's Hubei Province.

在中國中部的湖北省宜昌市婦幼保健院做過掃描之後，這位23歲的女士採取了這一措施。

Scans showed the foetus had developed a tail-like growth but no legs. It also did not have a bladder and had a stunted liver, reports said.

掃描顯示，胎兒類似尾巴的東西還在發育，但是沒有雙腿。報道指出，胎兒沒有膀胱，腎臟也發育不全。

Doctors at the hospital told mother 'Wu' the foetus was suffering from a rare condition known as sirenomelia, or "Mermaid Syndrome". It is a rare congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together, giving them the appearance of a mermaid's tail.

醫院的醫生們告訴這位姓吳的準媽媽，胎兒罹患的是罕見的並腿畸形，也稱“美人魚綜合症”。這是一種罕見的先天性畸形，患者的雙腿會粘連在一塊兒，看起來像是美人魚的尾巴。

Wu decided to terminate her pregnancy after specialists estimated that the baby would only survive for a few hours after birth.

在專家預計寶寶出生後只能存活幾個小時後，吳女士決定停止妊娠。

The causes behind Mermaid Syndrome are still a mystery and it is said to occur only once in every 100,000 pregnancies.

美人魚綜合症的病因至今仍是一個迷，據說每100000次妊娠中就會有一個。

Shiloh Pepin, an American dubbed "Mermaid Girl", suffered from sirenomelia. Despite undergoing 150 operations during her relatively short lifetime, she still passed away in 2009 at the age of 10.

美國“美人魚女孩”夏伊洛·皮平即是一位並腿畸形患者。在其相對短暫的一生當中，她雖然接受過150次手術，可還是在2009年去世了，年僅10歲。

According to reports, there are only two known survivors of Mermaid Syndrome in the world today.

據報道，當今世界只有兩例美人魚綜合症的存活者。