This IS weird, and awful for this poor man.
They actually weren't "roots" that were growing out of his limbs, he had a rare condition where his body could not stop or ward off the spread and
growth of a form of warts in his body.
Tree man 'who grew
roots' may be cured
Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.
The welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable to carry out everyday household tasks.
Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, resigned to the fact that
local doctors had no cure for his condition.
Here is a picture of his hands.
There are also 3 videos of this poor guy on the link above
Poor guy! I've NEVER seen anything like this.
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.
The virus was therefore able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his skin cells", ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance that
caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on his hands and feet.
Luckily for this guy Dr. Gaspari has concluded that Vitamin A may be the cure along with freezing some of the wart growths off.
r 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.
"He won't have a perfectly normal body but the warts should reduce in size to the point where he could use his hands," Dr Gaspari said.
"Over the course of three to six months the warts should be come smaller and fewer in number. He will be living a more normal life."
The most resilient warts could then be frozen off and the growths on his hands and feet surgically removed.
At least this poor guy can now recieve some help now.
We here in the US think things are getting SOOOO bad for us now, and then you see someone like this poor guy.
