it's possible, there's a some really wierd illnesses and diseases out there.. but i'd have thought i'd have seen it on some sort of medical programme over here by now. oo; (if it's real, they could just be sewing his clothes onto him each day. but his trousers looked pretty baggy)

Yea, I've gotta show this to my Mum..she is interested in all this type of stuff so she may know if this is completely real. We also get shows here that show strange medical problems so I wonder if it's been on one of our shows..hmmm!!

That's very, very real. There've been a couple of documentaries over here recently on efforts to find what the genetic mutation is and at least give him the use of his hands back.

I know the source of it.

Curse you, Treeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!

...I wonder if its going to grow everywhere else until he looks like... a walking pile of wood.

Then he'd just have to go naked and the people of the village would be appalled at the sight of tree butt and other things... >_>

Also, who'd reproduce with a man with leprosy? He said he got it at 15 so... maybe he was... 14 or under? It DOES look like a foreign country.
Also, is'nt leprosy like, contagious? WHY ARE THEY TOUCHING HIM.

Sudowoodo :O.

I SEE MAI POGEYMANZ!

O_O
Wow. I feel bad for the guy, I never thought things like that were remotely possible.

But does this mean if he punched someone it'd be like getting hit by a 2 by 4?

Leprosy is actually not contagious, at least not be casual contact. A leper's wife and kids could get it, but you could safely touch one (although it probably would be gross).

I can't go to the site to view it myself, since break.com seems to be on BYU's custom block list. But I thought I could add that since I recently read about it.

I don't think that's leprosy as it's caused by a bacterium and yadda yadda but it doesn't transform limbs like that. In addition, close contact with the mother of the children would lead to her acquiring leprosy. That man has something else maybe some lost of homeostasis in a protein somewhere. I do agree it looks real and stuff. However, one question remains: how the heck does he put that polo shirt on!?

Edit: Ah ok I found it. Here we go he has HPV and genetic problems with his Immune system so they're giving him Vit A among other treatments.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...ree112.xml

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Like I said: the UK media seems to've taken a particular interest in him recently.

*looks at article*

Great balsa fire!

It's too bad Indonesian doctors couldn't get to the root of this man's problem. However, he was barking up the wrong tree. American specialists willow knot disappoint him, yew know.

I pray fir his cure and I'm sure that it will be at a locust to him.

Acacia didn't know, American doctors are the best in the world. The surgery will be arborius, but we can expect him to be out of the woods A-SAP.

(Well...I couldn't just leave the puns on their own. At least I'm branching out.)

It was on sky news about two or three weeks ago in truth.
I had thought it had gone out of the news a little while ago in honesty.

Ultra, yer gonna burn for all those jokes. Hope aphids feed on your face and mosquitos suck the syrup outta you..lol.

...I wonder what a punch or kick from him would feel like. X_x

Not that I think he can swing his arms fast enough or lift his legs up that high, but... Imagining if he could... and he punched someone... I bet the pain of being hit by something that big... and maybe hard would take a backseat to the person being grossed out by the fact that one of those welts touched their face.

At least the children kind of toleratet he welts.