Diseases and mutations 2024, September

18-year-old Nurzhan Urkeshbayev was diagnosed with progeria at the age of five, which means premature aging of the skin. In the world, there are only 80 cases of progeria. Nurzhan - the only patient in Kazakhstan with such a diagnosis

Sharp shoulders, slim figure, girly outfit. From the back, Katya is an ordinary schoolgirl. But when she turned around, we were taken aback. Deep wrinkles … Only clear eyes reveal true age

Photo: Zara (center) with her 23-year-old sister and 42-year-old mother (left). The girl suffers from a rare genetic disease - "lipodystrophy", which is associated with premature aging of the skin

Doctors cannot give an unambiguous conclusion about the phenomenon of a young resident of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Phuong

Inside, she is exactly the same living seven-year-old girl, but with the body and face of an elderly woman. The brave little Ashanti Elliott-Smith suffers from a very rare disease that cannot be cured. Her body is aging 8 times faster than normal

A case of spontaneous onset of foreign accent syndrome occurs in New Zealand

In the nets of fishermen from Northumberland County, a real monster was caught - crab with three sets of claws

An African American organ was transplanted to an inventor from Krasnodar in the United States. The patient recovered, but darkened noticeably. Kidney and heart transplants are no longer surprising to anyone. But liver transplantation is still a challenge

Stan Markin. 25-year-old American, just recovered from heart transplant surgery. For over a year he lived with an artificial heart, and instead of a real human heart, he wore an artificial heart in a backpack on his back for 555 days

A two-headed pig was born in China for the second time this year

Such anomalies are quite rare, therefore the new case was awarded a separate scientific article in the Journal of Fish Biology

BBC Earth columnist talks about two-headed creatures that exist not only in ancient myths. It was a chilling sight

A resident of the US state of Florida claims to have discovered a two-headed alligator while walking his dog on the banks of a river. However, local authorities were skeptical about the man's statement

In Paraguay, a two-headed calf was removed from the womb of a dead cow. The calf was already dead, and its mother died after trying to give birth. The farmer took the dead mutant to local butchers for their examination

Villagers in northern Morocco were shocked by the birth of a two-headed calf, which was born on December 30. The unusual animal was named Sana Saida, which means "Happy New Year" in Arabic

This was Rishab before the operation The twin parasite, who had only developed arms and legs, lived inside a healthy one-year-old boy, threatening his life. Little Rishab died due to an underdeveloped twin brother

Like all twins, these girls have their own differences. For example, Christa loves tomato ketchup, and her sister Tatyana hates him

When Gloria Ramirez was admitted to the hospital and the medical staff began to treat her, the nurses noticed that her body exuded a strange odor, and then began to faint in a strange way

7-year-old Shaili Kumari from India was born with Crouzon syndrome, due to which she has an abnormal skull structure and wide-set, bulging eyes

An 18-year-old resident of Nagpur, India, suffered from a developmental anomaly for a long time, but did not tell anyone about his problem. When the pain was already unbearable, and the guy could not sit and sleep normally, he turned to local surgeons for help

An 11-year-old boy, who was born without a single limb, learned to play computer games with his chin. The child strives to remain as normal as possible

Israeli doctors have managed to cure a person suffering from the so-called "tree disease", the official name of which is verruciform epidermodysplasia

Diver Alejandro Ramos Martinez from Peru rose too quickly from a great depth, causing his body to swell like a ball

"Divine voices" obeying which the legendary Jeanne d ' Ark defended French interests, resisting the English invaders, could be, as Italian researchers have established, a manifestation of an unusual form of epilepsy

Because of a rare disease, the little resident of China received the nickname "cat girl". According to the girl's father, in just one year, his daughter was almost completely covered with wool

At the age of five, Brock Brown from Michigan was diagnosed with gigantism. A 19-year-old boy recently hit a record high - - he grew to 2 meters and 33 centimeters

The daughter of Anglo-Africans Banjamin and Angela puzzled geneticists who cannot explain why she was born with such an appearance. The baby was named Nmachi, which means "divine beauty" in the language of the Igbo people

Anshu Kumar, 21, suffers from some obscure congenital condition that makes the top of his head look swollen and his eye sockets wide apart

An attempt to cure skin cancer with alternative medicine and herbal medicines resulted in this woman losing half of her nose. Moreover, initially the disease was at the stage when it responded well to treatment

A young woman from Shandong Province, China, lived to be 24 years old, unaware that a significant part of her brain, namely the cerebellum, was missing from birth, a discovery that was made only when she visited doctors complaining of nausea and dizziness

A seven-month-old boy, whose head is already called the largest in the world, suffers from congenital hydracephalus. The volume of his head reached 96 cm.The child was born in India

A spectacled cobra with two heads hatched from an egg at the house of a resident of Jiujiang County, Jiangxi Province, Eastern China, who took 12 snake eggs for incubation at a snake breeding center in Nanning in May, Xinhua News Agency reported

Chinese teen was born with a rare anomaly - ten cervical vertebrae, as a result of which he has an incredibly long neck

In China, an operation was performed to remove a four-month-old girl … tail. Four months ago, a woman from the eastern Chinese province of Anhui gave birth to a daughter who was diagnosed with a tail about 5 cm long by affected doctors, according to newsru.com

Amazing and frightening ways to treat diseases in African tribes that still exist today

The boy with anomalies was born on January 21, 2017 in the Indian state of Karnataka. He had two extra legs growing out of his belly and a double set of genitals. These were probably the remains of his twin brother

There are now 165 children in the Belotserkovsky orphanage for boys. Here they study, do whatever they can, play sports, dance, sing, do beautiful things

Local residents are sure: the baby, in the abdominal cavity fused with a headless unformed twin, is a new incarnation of the god Ganesha

Local residents are now actively discussing the birth of a rabbit without ears near the Fukushima nuclear power plant

All over the world they talk about AIDS, cancer, tuberculosis and many other diseases, manifested mainly in the internal organs