The “worst disease you’ve never heard of” that affects men causes their skin to become “fragile as tissue.”

You can imagine, therefore, what it would be like to be Queensland, Australia’s Dean Clifford, whose uncommon skin illness, Epidermolysis Bullosa, has been called one of the worst diseases ever.

Doctors told his parents when he was just eighteen months old that he would not live past the age of five if he survived the next two years.

At forty-four years old, Clifford is the world’s oldest survivor of the most severe type of Epidermolysis Bullosa, a condition that affects one in fifty individuals.

He has defied all expectations, yet he still experiences chronic discomfort and must bandage his extremely thin skin on a regular basis.

He discussed his illness and how it has impacted his life with MailOnline, saying, “I essentially tell people that my skin is as strong as tissue paper or as strong as butterfly wings.

 

She is remaining with her husband, a police officer who had affairs with six of her coworkers.

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