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Boy turning into a 'human tree' because of extremely rare and painful condition

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Meet the little boy who suffers from an extremely rare condition that makes his hands and feet look like they're turning into trees.

The body of seven-year-old Ripon Sarker is covered in scaly warts because he suffers from the condition known as 'epidermodysplasia verruciformis'.

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