Girl With Mermaid Syndrome Dies
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October 28, 2009 by
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Shiloh Pepin, a 10 years old girl who was born with sirenomelia, has died last Friday in Maine. Sirenomelia is a condition most commonly known as mermaid syndrome.
Sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome is a condition in which one’s legs are fused together from the waist down. Pepin did not have any genital organs or a large intestine. Most children born with sirenomelia die soon after birth, but Pepin managed to live 10 years.