Progeria Makes Child Look Older than His ‘Paa’

A rare disease called Progeria has left a 14-year-old boy, Ali Hussain from Bihar, look akin to an older man 110 years in age.

Hussain is not the first in the community neither in his family to suffer from the disease. Five siblings of Hussain, including his three sisters and two brothers, have already been killed by the condition. Also, some 80 people across the world are affected each year by it.

Hussain's parents, Nabi Hussain Khan, 50, and Razia, 46, had eight kids. Now, they have only two healthy daughters. The couple had lost its first child in 1983, who was not able to walk or eat properly on her second birthday. It was then that they came to know about the deadly condition.

The parents had to visit several doctors to get the condition diagnosed, which claimed lives of their five children.

As per the report, progeria causes a person to realize an aged body at an early stage of life. The body ages at such a fast pace that the victim is even risked of dying before entering the youth stage. "If a doctor had perhaps told us that our children were suffering with some kind of genetic problem and we were connected we would've stopped having children - but nothing was said", stated Nab Hussain Khan, Ali's father.


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