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[Kuroyume]

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3844441.stm

 

[jenov4]

Ok that's just messed up.

 

[Mason]

I want to see pics of this thing.

 

[Suranga3]

errr...wtf

 

[Ecrofirt]

Sure she did.

 

[Rlan]

It begins!

 

[Mashing]

I really don't see how that's possible. Wouldn't the immune system think the larva was a foreign substance and attempt to destroy it?

 

[MrPing1000]

It begins!

He better be back for xmen3. I missed him from 2 and it would have roxxored more if he was in it, although I still think one of the special op's dudes that stormed the mansion looked like him

 

[Kuroyume]

I really don't see how that's possible. Wouldn't the immune system think the larva was a foreign substance and attempt to destroy it?

Don't you believe in God? God can make ANYTHING happen...

 

[AssMan]

Where's professor Xavier when you need him.

 

[effzee]

key word here is that its all speculatory and claimed but not proven.

 

[robertsan21]

she is a witch!

BURN HER!!! BURN HER!!!!

 

[Rlan]

He better be back for xmen3. I missed him from 2 and it would have roxxored more if he was in it, although I still think one of the special op's dudes that stormed the mansion looked like him

They actually created a set for him, a Nightcrawler Vs. Toad set, but then he got written out of the movie.

 

[aoi tsuki]

key word here is that its all speculatory and claimed but not proven.

True. Just to put things in perspective, i gave birth to twin frogs a month ago.

 

[ruffles]

I don't believe this news.

 

[teepo]

i'm ashamed

 

[MrPing1000]

Ms Piggy is going to be pissed

"Doing Kermit"

 

[Ripclawe]

I don't believe this news.

You doubt the BBC??? blasphemy.