Shiloh Pepin 'Mermaid girl' dies at 10.Shiloh Pepin known as the "Mermaid girl" died Friday at the age of 10 after suffering from a rare condition called "mermaid syndrome" or <em>Sirenomelia</em> according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . Pepin was born with only one partially working kidney, no lower colon or genital organs genital organ n. Any of the organs of reproduction or generation, including, in the female, the vulva, clitoris, ovaries, uterine tubes, uterus, and vagina, and in the male, the penis, scrotum, testes, epididymides, deferent ducts, seminal vesicles, and her legs are fused from the waist down. According to her mother, Shiloh caught a cold two weeks ago which soon developed into Pneumonia and bacteria eventually entered her bloodstream blood·stream n. The flow of blood through the circulatory system of an organism. bloodstream the blood flowing through the circulatory system in the living body. . Pepin appeared earlier in two TV specials; on <em>TLC</em> and on <em>Oprah</em> September 22. |
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