Diseases and mutations 2024, September

A resident of Leyte Island, Philippines, spoke of a mysterious disease that tripled his face. His story was published by the Daily Mail tabloid. 56-year-old carpenter Romulo Pilapil fell ill about three years ago. The man went to the hospital with complaints of itchy eyes and a runny nose

In the English county of Norfolk, a girl was born without an iris and is forced to wear sunglasses every day. This is reported by the Daily Mail. Two-year-old Rhiannon Kay suffers from a rare congenital aniridia disease that is associated with photophobia

A young woman with eerie black eyes was arrested by police in the American District of Lancaster, South Carolina. It is not yet known what caused such an unusual and frightening appearance of the criminal

This embryo with one eye and white skin was found in the belly of a pregnant gray bovine shark in the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California). Bull sharks are viviparous

A man named Abul Bazhandar, who lives in Bangladesh, is known throughout the world as the "tree man". The skin on his arms and legs was covered with numerous growths that looked like tree bark

The 55-year-old Indonesian, who is the father of four children, spent 24 years - half of his life, constrained in a supine position. His body literally froze in one position after his car was involved in an accident

11-year-old teenager Arya Permana from Indonesia used to weigh over 190 kg and was called the fattest child in the world

Siamese twins with one body and two heads were born in Indonesia on July 24. According to doctors, it was impossible to separate the babies: the boys have two hearts, but all other vital organs are common

Usually all these stories about mummies of aliens and unseen creatures end with one thing - falsification, manipulation and dummy. But here everything is different … In October 2003, a collector of artifacts from Indian history named Oscar Muñoz (Spanish

Tourette's syndrome - it is a mysterious medical pathology that has puzzled doctors over the past century

According to a study by Tim Spector, a British scientist and professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London, eating fast food regularly can kill all the bacteria in the human intestine

In 1907, after a short illness, which according to local Haitian beliefs is similar to the transformation of a person into a zombie, a certain Felicia Felix-Mentor died

A baby with two penises was born in Azerbaijan. The first was where it was supposed to be, and the second was growing out of the back. About this site medicina

Yaritza Oliva, 20, from Purranque, Chile, surprised doctors. At the beginning of the month, she asked for help from doctors due to the fact that several times a day she was bleeding from her eyes. Bleeding is accompanied by acute pain

Lamb Jake Peg on his five legs perfectly runs and frolics along with his brothers and sisters. An extra leg of a lamb only interferes with humans. The lamb was born last week with two normal hind legs and three front legs

Scientists from the American University of Idaho have found that the number of real human vampires living on Earth tends to be several thousand. Research findings published in the New York Post

A unique operation of its kind was recently performed by doctors of a pediatric hospital in the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Nai. They removed the fetus of her unborn twin from the belly of a seven-year-old girl

In Asia and the United States, a new disease has been identified that causes symptoms very similar to AIDS, but has nothing to do with HIV. This disturbing news was reported by the New England Journal of Medicine

This rare genetic disorder affects only one person in a billion. But these girls inherited the disease from their father, who suffers from hypertrichosis universalis - increased hairiness

The anomaly became known only after his birth. A child with four legs was born in a hospital in western Mozambique

Charlotte Putt from Wisconsin was born with the extremely rare Sprintzen-Goldberg syndrome. There are only about 50 such patients worldwide

These pictures with "extreme" injuries, including an elderly woman with a horn on her head, were taken in the late 19th century in one of the oldest hospitals in the Netherlands - Utrecht University Hospital

April Britt from Northampton, Massachusetts heard a strange noise in her backyard and went out to see what it might be. What he saw led the woman into great amazement

How old is mankind, so much it is accompanied by epidemics and pandemics of fatal diseases (pandemic is a massive epidemic, when almost the entire population of a country or continent falls ill)

Briton Ryan Howarth refused to eat anything other than chicken nuggets and fries for almost 20 years and fell out with the whole family. According to Metro, a psychotherapist helped him taste other foods

A Florida teen suffers from a rare disease that causes him to constantly lose his skin like a reptile. Doctors predicted that the boy would not live to see his first birthday - but he is still fighting for his life.Elio Figueiredo, from Tampa, was born with a genetic disorder thought to be a form of ichthyosis

The medicine for rheumatoid arthritis can kill ovarian cancer cells in women with the BRCA1 gene mutation. Reported by scientists from Plymouth University

It is generally accepted that we live in an enlightened society. Food is made by science, epidemics are slowly receding, Mars is a stone's throw

In some peoples, sexual intercourse between close relatives is quite common, and the royal families tried not to tarnish their ancestry and entered into consanguineous marriages

An international group of scientists found out that the causative agent of anthrax - bacteria Bacillus anthracis - could lead to the extinction of chimpanzees in Tai - National Park Cote d ' Ivoire

61-year-old T. Scott Marr from Nebraska is now referred to as Wonder Man. A father of four was admitted to hospital with a stroke on December 12, 2018 after he was found unconscious in bed

It is difficult to imagine the suffering of parents, whose children are literally getting old before our eyes - 7-8 times faster than an ordinary person

The number of infections with the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has reached 326, more than 200 people have died, the country's health ministry said on Saturday

Canadian scientists tested a new vaccine in African Guinea, and it showed 100% effectiveness in combating the disease, the epidemic of which broke out in Africa in 2014 - 2015

American scientists have found monoclonal antibodies in the blood of Ebola survivors of the Republic of the Congo, which helped cure monkeys after being infected with the deadly virus. Doctors are now ready to move on to human testing

Independently of each other, two teams of scientists discovered that even at the beginning of the current Ebola epidemic, the virus mutated and began to better infect human cells.A sharp outbreak of the Ebola epidemic that began in 2013

In Russia, the swine flu epidemic continues to grow, only in Moscow in recent days the number of infected has increased by 30%. Scientists have suggested that Ebola and swine flu may have one creator

The Ebola virus is not currently transmitted by airborne droplets. Ebola is spread by direct contact with body fluids such as blood, feces, and vomit

It is clear that everything flows and changes, but sometimes events burst into our life with lightning speed and also disappear with lightning speed. So it was with Ebola - the whole world was "in a fever" for some time and silence

The child's parents did not manage to raise money for an operation that would allow him to live a full life. Two-year-old Timothy Eli Thompson has died in the United States - boy born without nose