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Boy, 4, given accidental vasectomy during routine surgery as family sue hospital

The family of a four-year-old boy who was accidentally given an "unintended vasectomy" during surgery are suing a hospital.

The child was undergoing an operation on a hernia when a surgeon cut one of his tubes which will carry sperm when he gets older.

It is now feared he will need further surgery in order to have children, or could face lifelong infertility.

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