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The image you are looking at was taken by the AP of a person in Brazil suffering from xeroderma pigmentosum, or “XP.” It’s a condition in which, for better or worse as a description, people ‘melt away’ ..
The rare disease stops the skin from being able to heal itself from the sun’s rays.
The AP has more on relatively high amount of people in one village that are suffering from this..