PayJ567 said:
Why does this shit happen in China?
Furburt said:
[sub]What is it with fucking China?[/sub]
Logically speaking, a country with ~20% of all the people in the world would have a significant share of these sorts of rare mutations.
When you account for the generally high pollution level, and high poverty level, with correspondingly poor healthcare for most people the pieces fall into place.
Pollution can cause all sorts of bizarre health problems and mutations for developing children. (Probably not the culprit here, she's probably had reasonably healthy living conditions to make it to 101.) A mutation like that would probably have been spotted and removed in a country with good healthcare long before it could grow to that size.
By these factors combined, we have probabilistically high likelihood that random rare medical disorders or conditions will arise from China.
Also, the Universe's damn crazy.
EDIT: Also, the Universe's damn full of ninjas.