There is a rare disease that slowly turns its sufferers into living statues.
It's called "Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva" (or FOP for short)
and what it does is replace soft tissue with bone each time the soft
tissue is supposed to heal. It is caused by a mutant gene. It usually
shows up in the first or second decade of life and sufferers typically
die in their 30s or 40s after having been choked or suffocated by rabid
bone growth in their chest or throat. There are 800 known cases of it
and 285 of them are in the United States.
It's called "Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva" (or FOP for short)
and what it does is replace soft tissue with bone each time the soft
tissue is supposed to heal. It is caused by a mutant gene. It usually
shows up in the first or second decade of life and sufferers typically
die in their 30s or 40s after having been choked or suffocated by rabid
bone growth in their chest or throat. There are 800 known cases of it
and 285 of them are in the United States.
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Sources:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c
http://www.ifopa.org/fop-fact-sheet.html
Read about Zach who's a seven year old afflicted with the disease:
http://au.news.yahoo.com/sunday-night/features/article/-/18398709/human-mannequin-disease/
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