Half-Man Half-Tree

Posted on 17. Jan, 2008 by spencer in Science

It’s fair to say that you’ve never seen anything like this. This Indonesian fisherman named Dede has a rare immune system deficiency that has caused him to grow warts all over his body, which have overtaken his appendages and left him unable to provide for his family.

From the Telegraph UK:
After testing samples of the lesions and Dede’s blood, Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland concluded that his affliction is caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection that usually causes small warts to develop [...]