'Bubble-wrap man' goes public to find a cure

A 57-year-old man, who’s come to be known as Indonesia’s ‘bubble man,’ has revealed himself to the public in a bid to save his children from a similar fate.

Chandra Wishnu reportedly has a rare skin disease that has left him covered in tumours resembling bubble wrap.

Married with four children, Wishnu says he came out in the open as his eldest son Martin Ananda, 32, and daughter Lis Candra, 26, have begun to show signs of the disease.

According to a news story in Asia One, Wishnu’s lumps first appeared when he was 19, and by the time he was 24, they had spread to his back, and by 32, his entire body was covered.

Dermatologists are baffled by the severity of his symptoms, which doctors maintain are genetic and may be caused by an abnormality in the nervous system that causes benign tumors to develop on the skin or bone.

While he said that he is resigned to his fate, Wishnu is now worried about his children inheriting the strange disease, and decided to go public in a bid to find someone with a cure for his – and his children’s – condition.
 

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