Young mum 'terminates "mermaid" pregnancy at 6 months after discovering child had grown tail'

A young woman terminated her pregnancy after six months when doctors told her she was carrying a mermaid-like foetus, it has been reported.

The 23-year-old took the drastic action after a scan at the Health Care Center for Women and Children in Yichang City, in Central China’s Hubei Province. More Photos of a baby who survived the mermaid syndrome.

Scans showed the foetus had developed a 'tail-like growth' but no legs.

It also did not have a bladder and had a stunted liver, reports said

The causes behind Mermaid Syndrome are still a medical mystery and it is said to occur only once in every 100,000 pregnancies.

Shiloh Pepin, an American dubbed "Mermaid Girl", suffered one of the world’s most well-documented cases of sirenomelia.