Recently, it was found in medical records that a patient was born in Kentucky in 1975 with a condition called
Methimoglobinemia. This blood disease was popularized by the account,
"The Blue People of Troublesome Creek". The work outlined the Blue Fugates, the descendants of a French immigrant that settled in Kentucky in the early 1800s. Many members of the family line had this condition, and were noticeably blue. The condition causes the skin to turn blue, and is extremely rare. Over the past century, it has rarely been seen anywhere but Kentucky, in a small geographical region. It has nothing to do with the environment there, but with genetics.
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Methimoglobinemia is a recessive condition that is mostly perpetuated by inbreeding, which is exactly what was going on in the Fugate family line. The information found in medical records from 1975 was that of Benjamin Stacy, who has been proven to be a direct bloodline to the infamous 19th century family.
This is strange story I read a novel, Five People You Meet In Heaven, in which the author discuss about a man who got sick and had severe pain in his stomach. An alchemist gave him a chemical, i think some chemical with murcury or magnesium. The sick man drank too much chemical instead of one spoon and gradually turned blue. So, May be they also ate something like that which turned their faces blue.
ReplyDeleteBut your story is scary.