Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog'

[Deep Singh]

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BBC: Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_ea...ast/3844441.stm

An Iranian newspaper has reported the controversial story of a woman who claims to have given birth to a frog.

The Iranian daily Etemaad says the creature is believed to have grown from larva to an adult frog inside her body.

While it is unclear how this could have happened, the paper carries quotes from medical experts who say there are human characteristics to the animal.

It has been speculated that the woman, who has not been named, unknowingly picked up the larva while she was swimming in a dirty pool.

The woman, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of two children.

The "so-called frog", as the newspaper puts it, has yet to undergo precise genetic and anatomic tests.

But it quotes clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard as saying: "The similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the size and shape of the tongue."

Medical history recounts stories of people who believed they had frogs - or even lizards or snakes - living and growing in their bodies.

One of the most famous was the 17th Century case of Catharina Geisslerin, known as "the toad-vomiting woman" of Germany.

When she died in 1662 doctors are said to have performed an autopsy, but found no

evidence animals had ever lived inside her body.

BBC Monitoring, based in Caversham in southern England, selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.

[Gurjeet_Kaur]

eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Jkaur]

wow

ive read some wehre dat a women gave birth to a DOG.. now frogs.. what has the world came too??? kaljugh i suppose

[Panjaban4eva]

uhhhh....intresting!!! But are Iranian women allowed to swim??....even if it is in a dirty pool.

[Mukh Har Har Har Boleeia]

<_< weird

[sikhphilosophy]

[Karen Kaur]

giving birth to a frog... hmmm .. interestingg realli gross must say

[Khalsa4ever]

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

lol! I'm sure its probably just a little hype

vwihgurU jI kw Kwlsw!

vwihgurU jI kI &iqh!!

[Guest rsingh]

y are we discussing this. its discusting

[Deep Singh]

i know i posted it. don't ask how i found it :wub: