The shocking story of the "Tree Girl" of Honduras

May 7, 2019

The six-year-old girl began to show symptoms at four months and, despite attempts, the doctors have failed to eradicate this strange disease.

The protagonist of this story is Cristhél Suyapa Martínez, six years old, known as "Tree girl" from Latin America. Although this rare disease is more prevalent in Asia, the baby Honduran began to show symptoms from four months.

Cristhél his body is full of a sort of ladders and his case is similar to that of an Indian man known as "Tree Man". His mother, Irma Concepción Martínez Alvarado, revealed to the Honduran newspaper The gallery What the boy is hospitalized since early April at Mario Catarino Rivas Hospital in the city of San Pedro Sula.

The woman said that despite the tremendous efforts of all the medical staff during all these years, the cure of the rare disease of her daughter has progressed little. In addition, the financial situation of the family prevented her from buying many of the drugs that she prescribed to the girl.

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Irma Martinez she is alone in the solitude of the education of her three children: a 10-year-old girl, Cristhel Suyapa of six and a man of five, though only Cristhel suffers from this strange illness.

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The "Tree girl" has been treated in several hospitals in your country, but given the rarity of the disease, the doctors were not able to prescribe a specific treatment. Even in Asia, where these cases are more common, recognized doctors have not been able to eradicate the disease in those who suffer from it.