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. Sacked from his job
and deserted by his wife, Dede has been unable to look after his two children
Entang and Utis, who are now aged 16 and 18.
They have been
brought up apart from their farther by his extended family on the other side of
their remote village south of the capital Jakarta. With Dede’s condition
considered life threatening, he had resigned himself to missing out on the
remaining joys of fatherhood.
But now
a dermatology expert who flew out from the United States to examine his rare
condition says that a course of synthetic Vitamin A should clear up most of the
warts, and Dede is contemplating a transformed life.
“I
can’t work, I can’t provide money,” Dede said. “I want to be able to take care
of them [his children]. I hope to live long enough to see my grandchildren.”
After testing
samples of the lesions and Dede’s blood, Dr Gaspari of the University of
Maryland concluded that the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common
infection that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers, causes his
affliction.
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