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Entries from Shanghaiist tagged with 'elephantiasis'

July 23, 2008

A 24 year old woman from Jiangsu, Wang Cheng, is all smiles again after a successful operation in Taiwan on her rare condition, elephantiasis, which has hit her since the age of six and caused her legs to treble in size to about 50 kilos. Wang's condition had baffled doctors at major hospitals in Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing and Zhengzhou but help came in the form of a Taiwanese Buddhist group Fo Kuang Shan which......

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