Mermaid Girl Dies

This is a video tribute to Shiloh Pepin, a girl who has a rare condition called mermaid syndrome with her legs fused together, resembling the tail of the mythical creature.

Shiloh died at the age of 10 last October at Main Medical Center.  Doctors said that she had been hospitalized for at least a week before succumbing to death.

Being born with mermaid syndrome, the girl has only one partially working kidney, no genital organ, and no lower colon, making it impossible to surgically separate her legs.  Also, doctors found that the blood vessels from her legs will be severed if they make any attempt to separate her legs.

Before Shiloh died, she received two kidney transplants, the latest was in 2007.