<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Iranian woman 'gives birth to frog'


Tests are being carried out on the frog
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.</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by THRAWN:
I find it hard to believe, cause where would the frog be able to survive? The stomach has acids that would tear the thing apart in a matter of minutes.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by THRAWN:
I find it hard to believe, cause where would the frog be able to survive? The stomach has acids that would tear the thing apart in a matter of minutes.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jaiph:
No no no, it's the Spork that brings them.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jaiph:
No no no, it's the Spork that brings them.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by THRAWN:
I find it hard to believe, cause where would the frog be able to survive? The stomach has acids that would tear the thing apart in a matter of minutes.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Freelancer:
Human characteristics? What are they, exaclty? Providing that the picture in the article is *the* frog, I see no human characteristics.</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Freelancer:
Human characteristics? What are they, exaclty? Providing that the picture in the article is *the* frog, I see no human characteristics. I was hoping like lizardman or something. That's nothing.

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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."
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gebohq:
It'll be the rise of the frog people, I tell you!!

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">The woman, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, is a mother of two children...</font>

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Flexor:
That makes no sense... if the larva got into her body and develloped, how would the frog gain human characteristics? To do so, one of the parents would have to be a frog and the other a human. So where's the logic behind it?
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