Doctor confident she can cure werewolves

Pruthviraj Patil an eleven year old from India suffers from a rare condition commonly known as “werewolf syndrome” and is covered in hair.

The medical condition hypertrichosis leaves people with a thick coat of hair everywhere except for his palms and feet.

The rare condition is believed to be a genetic mutation which causes hair to grow uncontrollably.

It is believed there are fewer than 50 people worldwide with the condition, and many of them work in sideshows or live in seclusion.

His family had tried everything from homeopathy to shaving and even laser surgery but the hair kept growing back.

Dermatologist Angela Christiano from Columbia believes that a treatment for baldness may be the answer to curing the boy.

The treatments involve injections of testosterone, and the early results are promising.

Although doctors caution the long term effects are unknown.

“When I look in the mirror, I see that I have hair on my face and no one else does. Why is it only me?” the boy asked. “My greatest desire is that the hair should go.”

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