Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Asia Wire Report This is the Chinese teenager whose mouth and lips began rotting away after contracting a skin disease so rare none of her doctors had ever heard of it before. The unnamed female patient, 17, had symptoms including acute kidney failure and vomiting, and…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Video Credit: CEN/@Corantioquia This tiny oncilla cub with a rare genetic condition that makes its fur dark has been found amid the crops in a coffee field. The cute oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus) cub was found in a coffee field in the central north-western…
Picture Credit: AsiaWire This teenage girl has the wrinkled and sagging face of a 60-year-old because of an extremely rare condition called progeria which causes her appearance to rapidly age. The 15-year-old named only as ‘Xiao Feng’ says stigma caused by the unstoppable genetic disorder has led her to quit…
Story By: John Feng, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: AsiaWire Report Picture Credit: AsiaWire Doctors are working hard to fix the feet of this poor baby girl who is suffering from a rare case of "lobster feet". The 11-month-old, whose condition is known as split foot malformation, only has five…
