Jakarta –
A person one-eyed child born in Yemen. His presence in the world was only seven hours, but a lot of attention has been paid to him so far. This baby has only one eye socket and one optic nerve. He was born in March 2022.
Journalist from Yemen, Karim Zarai, was the person who first uploaded the baby’s photo to cyberspace and it instantly went viral. The child was born in Al Bayda in central Yemen.
“This is a rare case known in Greek mythology,” Zarai said as written Gulf News.
However, just born on Earth, this tiny baby can only survive for seven hours before finally breathing. It is not known exactly why the child died.
The condition of children born with one eye in the medical world is known as cyclopia. This is a deformed condition which is considered to be one of the rarest in the world.
Cyclopia also known as alobar holoprosencephaly. This health condition usually occurs in 1 in 100,000 newborns.
Throw Health line, cyclopia occurs when the forebrain does not divide properly. Often, this condition results in miscarriage or stillbirth. Because, not just because they have one eye, babies born with this condition usually have other health problems due to malformations of the baby’s brain from early in pregnancy.
However, no one knows for sure the cause of cyclopia. Some experts attribute it to radiation, but exposure to chemicals or poisons is also speculated to be the culprit for this problem.
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