The Two-Headed Girl: Tragic Development Manar Maged, the adorable little Egyptian girl who was born with two heads but survived an operation more than a year ago to remove the second head, has died from a brain infection.The BBC News reports that Manar's second head was caused by a rare birth defect called craniopagus parasiticus that occurs when an embryo splits in the womb but does not fully develop into an identical twin. The second head, which had eyes, a nose and a mouth, could smile and blink but depended fully on Manar to survive. It had no internal organs and was not capable of independent thought. That head was removed in February 2005 when she was just 10 months old. Now at age 2, she is dead. Manar was rushed to the hospital with a fever. "She was admitted to hospital in a very bad way," Abla el-Alfy, a consultant paediatrician involved in her care," told Reuters. "She had a very severe infection in the brain, and she wasn't able to fight it."