DNA test proves two Canadian friends, 41, were switched at birth at federally-run Manitoba hospital

After living for 41 whole years, two Canadian friends made the emotional discovery that they had been switched at birth and had been living with the wrong parents all along.

Leo Swanson

They are the second pair of men born at the same hospital to have gone home with the wrong family as infants.

Leon Swanson and David Tait Jr. sobbed during a Thursday press conference when they announced the results of a DNA test proving that they were raised by the other’s biological family due to a hospital error, CBC reported.

David Tait

“We don’t have words,” Tait said. “Forty years gone ... just distraught, confused, angry.”

Swanson and Tait had been born three days apart in 1975 at federally-run hospital in North House Cree Nation, a remote area in northern Manitoba.

The two men grew up together in the small community and were the target of teasing about how they resembled each other's’ families.

They decided to find out if there was any truth behind the jokes after two other men — Luke Monias and Norman Barkman from Garden Hill First Nation — who been born five days after them in the same hospital found out in 2015 that they had been switched at birth, CBC reported.

The men were in shock when the results of a DNA test linked Tait to Swanson’s mother. Further tests are expected to show that Swanson is the biological son of Frances Tait, his friend’s father.