Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich
March 7, 2011 (BENTIU) – A baby girl was born eight months ago without hands and one leg with three feet in her body occurred in Rubkotna County of Unity State.
Simon Ruach Keat and his wife Elizabeth Nyawal Ruot told Sudan Tribune on Sunday that they had given their eight month year old daughter the name Bhakita Chuongang Simon, indicating that she is lucky despite her abnormalities.
Bhakita’s birth has raised some concerns by superstitious local people in Rubkotna.
Her mother Elizabeth said that is always thinking about what how to look after the daughter that God has given her for the rest of her life. She asked the world to assist her family in caring for the child. Health facilities in South Sudan are underdeveloped after decades of civil war.
Elizabeth said that since she gave birth to her daughter she has not had had a single chance to feel happy. She said that she always feels shameful when she takes Bhakita out in public whenever other people are with her because they think she is a witch. Whenever she meets people their first reaction is fear and to keep their distance she said.
She added that when she visited Bentiu Teaching Hospital during her pregnancy the doctors did not inform her there was anything unusual about her child. Elizabeth added that she has sought help and advice from local authorities in Rubkotna on how to go look after her child. Bhakita is the families sixth child.
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Bol Deng
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
Please Elizabeth, you have noting to shame because you have been a wonderful woman in your life and this is why you have some children older than Bhakit. There is nothing wrong with your family or you character. The God just give you your daughter and who knows what God gave you. Please fill courage and Godbless you and your family. Thanks
Hero
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
God’s gives and he will care for her. Therefore, let’s not worry, since the creator is there for her.
Nguetbuny de Luelpiny
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
Nyawal does not have to be shame on anything.
it is disablitiy before it was born. or some can get disablity after it born. shut those who dismay you and there are evile minded. do they knew why how their children be bone?
everybody is with you Nyawal family.
God bless you with your family and the child
by the name of Deng Abuk.
soul of humanbeing
Nguetbuny
ogopa2011
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
THIS DISORDER HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT(S). THERE ARE NO SUPERSTITION SHITS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE DEFECTS. IT’S A MATTER OF INVESTIGATING WHAT ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT(S) THE MOM HAS BEEN EXPOSED TO SINCE THE FIRST DAY SHE CONCEIVED.
FOR THOSE WHO ARE STILL BELIEVING IN SUPERSTITIOUS STUFFS, YOU EITHER STOP IT OR YOU GO TO SCHOOL AND LEARN SOMETHING!!!
[I know what am talking about].
Alfredo christiani
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
Dear readers
These are disadvantages and consequences of oil in the area. Very bad news.
JAMES KUOI STEPHEN
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
God Almighty createred her for purpose of no one know why it has happened. Don’t feel suspious about her, God care about her, thought she look different among people, we still love her. one of day she will discribe herself,that Living God Almighty had brought her to the world for reason to be a life.You should keep loving your daughter in thank of praise to our Lord Jesus Christ who open the blind people eye to see and have their right of freedom to live as human being.
May Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus give you the strength to take your’s daughter responsiblility,who was born in the Land of Cush to be inclussive in our society of peace and co.operation. luke5:31-32
kuol M. Deng
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
This excerpt is for the writer/journalist who wrote such article on the girl who is born with deformities. Your article is okay only for information the people of South Sudan of this DNA deletion evidence.
More so, writer should have put sufficient informations regarding DNA deletions or genetics problems, then continue putting more details on DNA decoding and other malfunctions in the gene. We the readers also want to read this article with some comments from Doctors and Minister of Health as well as scientists who misght have been contacted. Readers like to know the carrier of DNA malfunctions, father or the mother. No need to rush with incorrect informations, dumping insufficeint health deformations from scratched notes, which readers worry about what left out; as it has been left out in the writing. Good luck!
kuol M. Deng
Girl missing hands and one leg in Rubkotna county of Unity state
DNA Denaturation, Annealing and Replication
On the last page, you saw the general structure of DNA, learning what nucleotides look like, how they are formed into single- and double-stranded chains, and how the nucleotides form weak bonds that help hold two chains together.
Now we’ll learn why it is that the double-strandedness of DNA is so important.
You’ll recall that, in the center of a double-stranded DNA molecule, the ‘A’ nucleotides are weakly attracted to ‘T’ nucleotides, and ‘G’ is attracted to ‘C’. This has some critically important consequences. When two strands can pair like that, they MUST have exactly opposite and complementary chemical structures. That means:
If those two strands are separated, they still “recognize” their opposite strand.
If one strand is lost or damaged, it is possible to build it’s exact duplicate just by examining the remaining intact strand!
Here are some details:
If we heat up a tube of DNA dissolved in water, the energy of the heat can pull the two strands of DNA apart (there’s a critical temperature called the Tm at which this happens). This process is called ‘denaturation’; when we’ve ‘denatured’ the DNA, we have heated it to separate the strands.
The two strands still have the same nucleotide sequences, however, so they are still complementry. If we cool the tube again, then in the course of the normal, random molecular motion they’ll eventually bump into each other … and stick tightly, reforming double-stranded DNA. This process is called ‘annealing’ or ‘hybridization’, and it is very specific; only complementary strands will come together if it is done right. This process is used in many crime labs to identify specific strands of DNA in a mixture.
Now, when we’ve denatured the two strands, there’s something else we can do – replicate the DNA. The key here is that any single-stranded piece of DNA can only hybridize with another if their sequences are complementary. If we have just one strand, we can actually build another strand to match it.
Here’s how it’s done, either in a test tube or in a live cell:
The DNA strands are separated (for example, by heating them in a test tube).
For each strand, we provide a primer, which is a short piece of DNA that sticks to one end of the strand.
An enzyme is added. This is a specific type of protein called a “DNA polymerase” that can “read” the bases on one strand and can attach the complementary base to the growing strand.
The polymerase “walks” down the template strand and creates its exact complement as it goes.
The same thing happens to the other original strand.
When we started, we had one double-stranded piece of DNA. After polymerase is done, we’ve got two identical pieces – exact copies of each other.
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