A shocking report Afriupdate News has received has it that a 20-year-old girl whose name is yet to be disclosed has given birth to an 80-year-old looking baby.
According to report, the shocking incident is said to have occurred in South Africa. The girl, who is in South Africa gave birth to a man old enough to be his father.
From our background checks, the newly born 80-year-old looking baby is a grandfather to the 20-year-old lady who gave birth to him.
It is said that the grandfather did not fulfill his mission before demising to the ancestral land and as result has been sent to come back to get his mission fulfilled.
The news which was accompanied by photos of the mother and the baby has sparked lots of controversies on the internet with many wishing the girl well while others troll her for not taking her time in life.
However, medical experts confirmed that it was caused by a rare medical condition called progeria, a progressive genetic disorder that causes children to age rapidly.
Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS) is caused by a mutation (change) in the lamin (LMNA) gene.
Director of children’s rights organisation, Khula Community Development Project, Petros Majola, believes communities need to be educated about this condition.
“Communities must know that the mother did not apply for her baby to be like this. In a woman’s womb, there is no construction or factory that builds babies. People need to embrace this child for who she is,” says Majola.
Medical experts also say the genetic condition occurs randomly and is not inherited. Doctor Martha Mayer, a neonatologist at the Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital says the syndrome is very rare.
“Progeria is a genetic condition that makes the baby age faster. Another thing is that these children also develop heart diseases and their life span is very short. We have never had a child with that condition in this hospital. It is very rare, maybe it happens to one in four or eight million people.”
Progeria affects about 1 in 20 million people around the world and there is no known cure
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