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A 35-year-old Indonesian man named Dede suffered a simple cut as a teenager and thereafter began growing tree-like warts all over his body. The warts soon worsened into mossy, branching growths, virtually incapacitating him. His wife left him, he was out of a job, and he was made the village freak. Doctors could never figure out what Dede’s condition was, and the growths worsened with each passing year. It wasn’t until an American dermatologist traveled to see Dede’s odd growths and cutaneous horns that the proper diagnosis was made: Dede was simply suffering from HPV, or human papilloma virus. HPV causes warts (frequently of the genital variety) and is quite common in humans. Unfortunately for Dede, he happens to have a rare genetic flaw that causes his immune system to be as weak as someone with AIDS. The chances of this genetic fault? Less than one in a million. Fortunately for Dede, proper treatment and several surgeries offer the promise of a normal life. The doctor is also trying to get more American support for this special patient. Good luck, Dede! (Check out the video here.)
- via Neatorama
Update: Find out what’s happened to the Tree Man in the last year and how surgery is improving his life.
he gets better he is lighter now a video in you tube.com but its still sad
i think everyone should relize that this is horrible. no one deserves this and no one should be making fun of this man i feel very sorry for him and everyone should but hopfuly he will make it threw because this is the sadest thing ive ever seen but life isnt all perfect well none of it really ever is
i feel so sorry for him. it must be awful to be in that conditoin. that just makes me feal awful ):
man, thats so sad. What a messed up wife he has, she left him cause he is like that! Im so glad there are still kind people in this world. hope he gets better =)
im sorry it got so far and spread the way it did their are docs that can remove them
that is really sad i hope thast he is healed now..
i feel really bad for him and hope he gets better.
I feel bad for him and im only 10 and it is kinda scary i feel bad for him.
THATS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FREAKY
Humans are Organic, so are trees. Over time, the cut got infected, or seeds got into it. There are many ways seeds could have gotten in there. Some float with the wind, maybe he was walking through brush, or farming and such. 1. Warmth, 2. Sunlight, 3. Moisture, 4. Food(Like water, in this case, maybe some of his blood but humans are what…75% water?). So boom, there you go. Eventually it kept growing, got under the skin, and stretching across the body.
That’s sorta logical but it’s not true. He got it from a rare HPV (search it up) case. The immune system would have cleaned the seeds so obviously, it could not have started from a tree. I’m guessing you got this idea from a book about how a girl was going to grow into a tree after swallowing watermelon seeds.
A south Florida man grew a pea tree in his lung so strange things are possible. Granted this is an hpv related issue, one cannot always rule out possibility based on their boundary of knowledge. I feel bad for this man and I hope he is able to enjoy some of the privileges that life offers and we come to expect or take for granted.
BBC link to pea germination in human lung:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10945050
I can’t believe the first few comments I read about this article. Those people should really be ashamed of themselves. Put themselves in Dede’s shoes. He is only a human seeking help from others. What right do we have to say bad things of him? Anysways…may God bless him and the doctors who are looking for ways to help him become himself again.
God bless this man…I heard he still needs to take antiboiotics and get surgery every-so-often as well as treatment for scars….I can’t believe how cruel the world is, and how we turn our backs to the people who need help more than us, just because we were raised healthy, it doesn’t mean we can’t have sympathy for the less fortunate. I feel bad for Dede and he is definitely on my prayer list,and i pray for u ppl who are mean to him and judge him because of his genetic misfortune, just because i pray for mercy on ur shallow souls. thanks for your time.
I hope he gets well soon!
dam por guy….and thats pretty mest up that his wife left him she should of helped him and been with him by his side…….. and hes not stupied things jst happen
dont make fun of him its not his fault god damn you peopole are so mean ! what if that was you! think about that immature brates
I’m glad to see that there are still some kind people in this world who don’t judge a person by the way he/she looks…what’s on the inside is what matters most!!! As for those people who can only make rude remarks about Dede, please get a life!!!
I feel really bad for this man. Nobody deserves that kind of thing. But.. I geuss thats justlife at its worst.
Oh, and all of you people who laugh at him or say rude things about him, you need to go and get a heart.
I bet it it wouldnt be so funny if you had that, now would, i bet you wouldnt be laughing!
Its reali a sorry look.Thank God for corrective surgery, at least he stands a chance of leading a normal life again.
People, this is life, thats what it is; the least we can do is show empathy to this man turn tree and wish him luck in the operations not mockin him. What if it happens to you?
uh…you’re welcome.
thanks.