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Monstrous disease of those who want to remove their limbs
People with an identity disorder of the body are always obsessed that they have a certain part of their body, legs or eyes, so they have to find a way to eliminate it.
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Mysterious mutation of the gene causes the human body to double
A rare genetic disorder that causes the patient to become swollen if there is an allergic reaction is causing a headache for scientists who have not found an explanation…
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Spasticity immediately by Guillain - Barré syndrome
After about one week of diarrhea, male patients with weakened limbs, loss of tendon reflexes, doctors identified Guillain - Barré syndrome, ie nerve root inflammation.
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American girls have strange diseases when changing their skin every 4 hours
Harper Foy, in Washington, USA is believed to be the youngest person in the world with a disease that makes skin grow 7-10 times faster than normal people.
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Young woman living in plastic pots for strange disease
Losing the ability to use limbs since childhood, Rahma Haruna, 19, (Nigeria), is placed in a plastic basin for transportation and living.
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The 5-year-old girl has half her body growing faster than the other half
Lilli-Mai Queen, a 5-year-old girl from Lancaster, England, suffers from a rare syndrome called Beckwith Wiedemann, making her right half body grow faster than the left…
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Rare insomnia kills two generations of Australian families
Australian sisters Lachlan and Hayley Webb have grandmother, mother, aunt and he all died of insomnia for days or months.
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She has a face deformed by rare syndrome
Alesha Wilcock, 7, of England, suffers from a rare form of skin disorder that distorts her face.
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Strange life-threatening disease of people in Phu Tho
Born healthy, normal, but growing up, the faces of these children suddenly become swollen, appear acne and dry like toad skin.
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The 5 most bizarre disorders in the world
Syndrome: crying like cats, biting people, panic, face slitting, or twitching ... is very rare in people but strangely there are times when these diseases develop into a…
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The woman could not smile
Having a rare illness that cannot be smiled since birth, the 33-year-old British woman refused to have surgery to find her smile because she did not want her to face the…
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Strange girl crying and sweating blood
For 4 years, girl Delfina Cedeno (19 years old, in Veron, Dominican Republic) had to live with a strange disease.
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Strange illness, the man never stopped forever
A teenager from the UK surprised everyone, as his body grew constantly due to an unprecedented disease in the world.
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Strange disease: The blood vessels float like a snake under the skin
A strange, rare disease caused the blood vessels from the chest down of a Japanese grandfather to bulge and float like a snake under the skin.
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4-year-old baby pregnant in the stomach
Chinese doctors were shocked to discover that a fetus did not grow inside the stomach of a 4-year-old boy, swollen from birth.