Family tormented by ageing disease
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4286347.stm


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Only seven years old, Ali Hussein's hair is already thinning.

This is the most visible of many symptoms showing - despite being a boy - he is actually middle-aged.

He suffers from progeria - an extremely rare condition causing his body to fast-forward through the ageing process.

Like his sister and brother who also have the disease - Rhena, 19, and Ikramul, 17 - he has almost no chance of living beyond his early twenties.

The illness has stunted the development of the children. It causes other problems, such as a second row of teeth in their mouths and pale, almost translucent, skin.

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oOo:

jeebus!...

Progeria is horrible. I've seen many stories about people with this disease, and it's just sad annoy:

damn

like that movie Jack with Robin Williams. They look like that weird puppet thing that was posted here a while ago.

Yeah, I've seen stuff like that. On The Maury Show (that still on?) there were these two babies who were about to die, and they were raising funds for them on the show to do...something....and seriously, the looked like two old men (twins, BTW). They had wrinkles, and old-people-spots, and they barely knew how to walk. Some wierd stuff.

annoy:

Thats sad.

Whoa they look like cartoon characters.

......this got me thinking. This disease probably holds the key to finding out how the aging process actually works. With enough funding and studying of this disease, scientists could possibly find out how to slow the aging process for humans.

It's a shame this disease couldn't be injected into prisoners.

that would only shorten their punishment... it would be better to inject them with a drug that causes chronic pain, and makes them live longer... biggrin:...

The Last Action Hero:

"I would like to be an actor, to drive cars and aeroplanes and be an action hero" -Ali Hussein

Shorten yes, but it would probably be more terrifying mentally to see your body age at an accelerated rate and start to fail on you.

that would be fucked up...

I saw guys with that disease on Murry...the dude got to go and meet goldberg and shit...but having that disease must be terrible.

Robin Williams had the disease once.