Kodinhi is a village in
Malappuram district in Kerala, India. Administered by the Nannambra panchayat,
the village came to international attention for the unusually large number of
multiple births in the region.
Kodinhi only has around
2,000 families, yet there are 250 sets of twins officially registered there. In
fact, there could be many more—experts estimate there could be as many as 350
sets of twins in the area.
Despite several studies
being conducted, the exact cause of this phenomenon is yet to be ascertained.
Women from Kodinhi married off to faraway places are also known to give birth
to twins. The number of twin births in Kodinhi has been increasing over the
years
Research has suggested
that the multiple births could be related to the eating habits of the women in
the region; though no direct correlation between dietary intake and twin births
has been observed.
Doctors have absolutely
no idea what is causing this strange phenomenon. They assume there must be some
unknown hereditary factor at work, or maybe it’s something they eat. Until they
find out for sure, the Village of Twins remains one of the strangest
curiosities of perhaps the most mysterious country in the world
Similar phenomenon of a
large number of twin births within a small isolated community has been observed
in Cândido Godói, Brazil & in the town of Igbo-Ora in Nigeria
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