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In November 2007, a video of a 35-year-old Indonesian man named Dede Koswara with a similar disease appeared on the Internet. [16] His story appeared on the U.S. Discovery Channel and TLC series My Shocking Story (Extraordinary People on UK's Five) in the episode "Half Man Half Tree". [17]
Dede Koswara (1971 – January 30, 2016), also known as the "Tree Man", was an Indonesian carpenter with epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV), a rare disease that causes the human papillomavirus (HPV) to grow uncontrollably, leading to the development of warts resembling tree bark. For most of his life, he was shunned for having an unknown disease.
Kyasanur Forest disease: Kyasanur Forest disease virus: rodents, shrews, bats, monkeys tick bite La Crosse encephalitis: La Crosse virus: chipmunks, tree squirrels mosquito bite Lassa fever: Lassa fever virus: rodents contact with urine, feces, or bodily fluids of infected rats; human-to-human transmission via bodily fluids Leishmaniasis ...
Slime flux, also known as bacterial slime or bacterial wetwood, is a bacterial disease of certain trees, primarily elm, cottonwood, poplar, boxelder, ash, aspen, fruitless mulberry and oak. A wound to the bark, caused by pruning, insects, poor branch angles or natural cracks and splits, causes sap to ooze from the wound. Bacteria may infect ...
Hulbert, who has a Ph.D. in plant diseases, pointed to a jigsaw puzzle-like black patch, the fungus’ fruiting body, on one tree’s truck. Inches away are green moss and hair-like pale lichen ...
A healthy tree naturally combats heart rot through a process called compartmentalization. The tree grows around the decayed wood tissue and prevents the fungus from spreading to a larger area of the trunk. Providing a tree with the necessary nutrients, water, and growing conditions will promote healthy growth and minimize rot.
A council wants to hear what people think about its plans to fight ash dieback in a woodland area.
A chestnut tree that has been felled, with blight on its inner bark and trunk. The fungus enters through wounds on susceptible trees and grows in and beneath the bark, eventually killing the cambium all the way around the twig, branch, or trunk. [31] The first symptom of C. parasitica infection is a