A U.S. doctor - and vitamin A - has given hope to an Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like growths covering his body.
Dede, 35, began to grow warty "roots" out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee as a teenager.
The growths spread across his body and soon he was left unable to perform everyday tasks.
Dede has been raising two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, after his wife left him and he was sacked from his job.
But now an American dermatology expert who flew out to Dede's home village south of the capital Jakarta claims to have identified his condition, and proposed a treatment that could transform his life.
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 on sufferers.
Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts.
Dr Gaspari, who became involved in the case through a Discovery Channel documentary, believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by a daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A, which has been shown to arrest the growth of warts in severe cases of HPV.
Dr Gaspari would like to fly Dede to the U.S. for further treatment but fears that may be too complicated to arrange.
Lmao.. "OMG, THOSE ROOTS ARE HORRIBLE"
"I know, I know, I haven't been able to go to the salon in months!"
"No, I mean the ones growing out of your arms!"
Lmao.. "OMG, THOSE ROOTS ARE HORRIBLE"
"I know, I know, I haven't been able to go to the salon in months!"
"No, I mean the ones growing out of your arms!"
... it's so wrong to make fun of something so crazy... but still
That is so0 sick!!! The human body works in such wierd ways....
Its crazy what one lil mutated gene can do to a person.
Wow really sad...... this kinda depressed me =(
... but the video is gross and is there a second video cause uhm it sort of just like stopped :-/
I saw this on MediaTakeOut.com a couple weeks ago and thought it was fake like everything else on the website, but I guess not 
... i thought it was just a joke 2... 
but then i feel 
cuz that is mean.
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