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Colombian is world's shortest man at 27 inches

Published: September 6, 2010 8:12 PM
By Guinness World Records, measuring 27 inches.. "He hasn't grown since he was 2 years old," his mother, Noemi Hernandez, said of the oldest of her five living children.. The previous titleholder was He Pingping of China, who was 1.5 inches taller and died March 13. The Guinness people discovered Nino afterward.. They say Nino's reign is not likely to last long, however.. Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal is expected to take over after he turns 18 on Oct. 14. He is about 22 inches and is currently recognized by Guinness as the shortest living teen.. Doctors never could explain why Nino is so small, his parents say.. "They never gave us a diagnosis," his mother said during an interview in the family's apartment in Bosa, a mostly poor district of southern Bogota.. Hernandez, 43, said Nino weighed just 3.3 pounds at birth and was 15 inches long.. She said doctors at the National University studied him until he was 3, then lost interest. She and her husband, a security guard, lost a daughter who was similarly small in 1992 when she was less than a year old.. The couple's youngest child, Miguel Angel, 11, stands 37 inches tall and has facial features similar to Nino's. The other three boys are of normal height and appearance.  

- AP

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