a few hundred people born every year will become living statues

[Blade96]

Muscles turn to bone

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/98feb/bone.htm

Ugh.

Despite people who have this who do not, if I had it I'd probably wish for Dr Kevorkian.

Poor people

 

[Carol]

"These people aren't just forming little bones here and there," Kaplan says. "They are forming a whole extra skeleton. It doesn't necessarily look like the first one, but that's what it is. It's extraordinary that a differentiated tissue like a muscle or a tendon can turn into another differentiated tissue, like a bone. It's like crossing all the lanes of a busy highway. Developmental biology is not known to work that way.

That's just spooky.

What a horrible thing to have to live through

 

[Nomad]

Holy Crap! Interesting read on a very nasty disease.

 

[Blade96]

I enjoy reading about weird stuff. Like people who can do amazing things, or reading about diseases no one's hardly even heard of. This just one of the creepy things

I had to lol on a MA forum though when i posted about the people who will become living statues. One of my acquaintances asked 'Can i have a couple for my garden'?

As horrible as this disease is, his comment made me lol a little.