Three members of the same family from Bangladesh suffer from terrible “tree-like” growths on their bodies. 8-year-old Rahul Amin, his father Tajul Islam and uncle Bashed Ali have a rare disease called epidermodysplasia verruciformis, which causes the appearance of tough and growing warts on the body.
The recently deceased famous "tree-man" Dede Kosvara suffered from the same disease.
Before the appearance of this family, together with Dede Koswara and another resident of Bangladesh, Abul Bajandar, only three cases of this disease were previously known.
Abul Badjandar, who was operated on a month ago
Three members of the same family were recruited for the study at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, where Bajandar was previously treated.
The palms of little Rahul were least affected, but the feet were heavily covered with hard growths in all three. The eldest, Bashed Ali, suffered so much damage to his legs that local doctors had previously been forced to amputate them for him.
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“Now all three are being prepared for a full medical examination,” says doctor Samantha Lal Sen, who examined Abul Bajandar a month earlier, who underwent surgery to remove growths and is now recovering in the same clinic.
Bashed Ali, who had his legs amputated
Even after the case with Dede Kosvara, who in 2008 also underwent surgery to remove the growths (they grew back a couple of years later), it was found that the human papillomavirus plays an important role in the occurrence of a rare disease.
Now there are about 100 different types of human papillomavirus, of which 80 are the most studied. As a rule, this virus causes various growths on the body (warts) and inside it, but the case with Dede and others is its worst manifestation.
Dede Cosvara (died January 2016)
