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Onesmus' Darier's disease that still gets him shunned three decades on

His sister Florence Martha Kyalo, nurses him at home

Onesmas Mwanzi is a lonely man. Mwanzi, 43, walks with difficulty, has an itching skin and unpleasant smell attributed to Darier’s disease, a skin condition he developed when he was only nine.

He has an extensive skin thickening on the face, scalp and scattered lesions on the body, groin, lips and other body parts.

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