Weird News: Epidemic! Horns growing out people’s heads! by Chris Perridas
When you’re down, and think it can’t get worse – it can. And when arrogance rears its ugly head, and you think you are at the top of the food chain – get a grip. You are food!
Here are some tragic and startling cases where individuals have been hijacked by microscopic invaders. The first two are women who had literal horns grow from their forehead. The other, a far worse case.
18 May 2007
The family of 95-year-old Zhao from Zhanjiang city, China are hoping that doctors will be able to explain the 5 inch horn that is growing out of her forehead. Local media describes the horn as curving down “like the stalk of a pumpkin”. The mysterious growth started three years ago. “At first, it was only a mole, but it gradually grew and became like a horn. It causes me no discomfort, but blocks part of my view,” said Zhao.
9 March 2010
Chinese grandmother, 101, grows mystery horn on forehead. An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat’s. Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year. Since then it has grown 2.4 in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.
12 November 2007
Perhaps the worst of all is the disfiguring wart-type disease that causes the body to become totally alien. The papilla virus, or warts, explode as it takes over skin cells. Luckily, this Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by the tree-like growths covering his body was been given hope of recovery doses of Vitamin A.
Fired from his job, deserted by his wife, he and his two children were forced into poverty, resigned to the fact that he would be eaten by the lesions. To make ends meet he joined a “freak show”, parading in front of paying audiences.
Only partly and sporadically supported by his extended family, he was often a target of abuse and ridicule in his rural fishing village. He acquired the debilitating condition shortly after cutting his knee as he worked in water.
The man faced treatments of vitamins, freezing, and some surgery. “He won’t have a perfectly normal body but the warts should reduce in size to the point where he could use his hands,” his physician, Dr Gaspari said. The man faced treatments of vitamins, freezing, and some surgery.
Video of “Tree Man”.
Link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1569156/Tree-man-who-grew-roots-may-be-cured.html
