Human ‘Treeman’
Nov 26th, 2007 by dmess0r
Independent Television News (ITN) of the United Kingdom recently aired a news blip regarding a man who has a bizarre condition where warts have aggressively grown all over his hands and feet. The warts have overcome his appendages to the point of appearing like tree-bark.
After testing samples of the lesions and Dede’s blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland concluded that his affliction is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers.
Dede’s problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts.The virus was therefore able to “hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells”, ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance that caused the tree-like growths known as “cutaneous horns” on his hands and feet.
This is one of those videos I couldn’t pass up sharing.