The Virus That Makes People Look Like Trees

Although most people know HPV, the human papilloma virus, as a sexually transmitted disease, the HPV type called Epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV), which turns people into trees, is quite different. This condition is associated with the so-called 5 or 8 type of HPV. Its emergence is due to gene mutation. Therefore, a person can inherit this mutation from both parents. Even consanguineous marriage, increases the risk of this happening.

This rare condition is popularly referred to as ‘tree man syndrome’ is named. In fact, it is known that this disease is seen in only 200 people worldwide. In this content, we wanted to share with you the difficult life struggles of people who have this syndrome due to the disease.

In the bodies of those who have had this disease, the famous warts of HPV begin to appear first. Then all over the body is covered with interesting brownish protrusions resembling tree branches.

The World Health Organization (WHO) stated that HPV is very common in the world and more than 100 types says it is. It is not easy to get rid of a species like EV, which directly defeats people’s immune systems.

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Symptoms of the disorder first appear in childhood. Swellings like warts on the neck, face, hands and feet, raised lesions are formed and gradually spread to the whole body. But these warty things leave the viewer astonished because they are so interesting.

Shana Khatun

According to experts, this disease can be seen equally in men and women. For example, the first woman to experience this was a 10-year-old from Bangladesh. Sahana Khatun is happening.

Abul Bajandar

This disease first came to the fore when the news of 28-year-old Abul Bajandar, who lives in Bangladesh, spread to the media. Bajandar says that he has struggled with this disease all his life, and that his hands are like tree branches that have been cut into heaps and that is why he can’t do any work. Even doctors “Cut my hands off, enough is enough” There is also a similar reproach.

Bajandar undergoes more than 25 surgeries in 2016. However, over and over again, things that look like tree roots continue to appear on his body. That is, even if the surgeries are repeated over and over again, The virus doesn’t stop making people’s bodies abnormal.

Dede Koswara

Mahmoud Taluli

Likewise, Dede Koswara living in Indonesia and Mahmoud Taluli living in Gaza are also struggling with this disease. These people also undergo many surgeries just like Bajandar and the result is for them. gets frustrated again.

So why don’t surgeries applied to patients work? How can this disease be treated?

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Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for this. Usually warts a freezing method called cryotherapy or a burning method called cauterization they are trying to eliminate.

In addition, various creams and retinoids (medicine / serum that provide cell regeneration) can also be prescribed. So these are Although they prevent the growth of damaged areas They don’t exactly destroy them.

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As we mentioned in this content, with the surgeries performed on people who have this disease, they cut things that look like tree roots in the hands, arms and various parts of the body and separate them from the body. And areas that are already in trouble They can’t get 100% of it out of the body.

In order to provide a normal appearance on the places where they can be removed from the body. They do skin transplants. To repeat, this is such a serious condition that surgeries are unfortunately in vain.

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In fact, a study states that 30% or 50% of the problematic blisters on this skin cause cancer. In particular, these areas should not be removed from the body for a long time and exposed to sunlight. factors that increase cancer risk is happening. In other words, warts caused by HPV must be removed from the body.

Michael Chernofsky

Doctor Michael Chernofsky, who performed Mahmoud Taluli’s fifth surgery in 2017, examined the infected areas in his surgeries. from the skin surface He says it doesn’t make sense to cut them out. The doctor states that these tree-like structures must remove the warts that are rooted in the deepest part of the body so that they do not grow back and spread throughout the body.

In addition, the specialist said to everyone, as each patient’s immune system reacts very differently to this virus. that no single form of treatment can be applied expresses it. For this reason, it seems important to make genetic maps of those who have this problem, to perform various medical tests on them and to discover an appropriate treatment method.

Likewise, I do not know if the examples we gave throughout the content reminded you of something, but the countries where those who have experienced this disease live, 3rd world countries we see that. Apart from the fact that these countries struggle with poverty, the people living in these countries also have problems in accessing health services.

Also, since the health sector is not developed in these places, even if people have the opportunity to receive treatment in these places, these opportunities are quite limited it can happen.

Another issue is that in these countries serious problems with hygiene to be available. So there is such a disease, yes, but we would like to draw attention to the connection of this disease with geography. In short, we can say that the treatment of the citizens living in these areas should be followed by the countries that are more developed in the field of health.