Iraqi baby is first boy ever to be born with three penises, doctors claim

A boy in Iraq who was born with three penises is the first child ever proven to have the strange deformity, doctors have claimed.

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case with three penises or triphallia,” wrote Dr. Shakir Saleem Jabali in a study on the treble-membered tyke published in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports.

It is reported that only one was functional so the other two — attached to the shaft of his actual penis and bottom of his scrotum — were surgically removed.

The unidentified boy, a native Kurd from Duhok, was three months old when the tale was first published last year.

Doctors said one in every five to six million boys is born with more than one penis, with around 100 cases of diphallia – two penises – recorded worldwide.

A similar instance of triplet nether regions made headlines in India in 2015, but couldn’t be verified as it wasn’t documented in a medical journal, the Daily Mail reported at the time.

Doctors have yet to pinpoint the cause of the phallic deformity, however they have linked it to other congenital aberrations such as being born with two scrotums or anuses, according to World Health Organization research.

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