The reason why a family’s skin has been blue for nearly 200 years

(1)When Benjamin Stacey was born in 1975, nurses and doctors said,
(2)I had no choice but to be shocked.
(3)Because unlike other babies, Benjamin had dark blue skin.
(4)Benjamin Stacey was the latest child to be born to a blue-faced Phugat family who lived in Kentucky’s Appalachian Mountains for the past 197 years.
(5)He was born in 1820 in France with blue skin.
(6)Martin Fugart settled in the Appalachian Mountains in eastern Kentucky and married a pale-skinned woman named Elizabeth Smith.
(7)The two had seven children, four of whom were born blue-skinned like Martin, and the other three were born pale-skinned like their mother Elizabeth.
(8)There were no roads in rural eastern Kentucky at the time and railways were not connected to the area until the early 1910s.
(9)Afterwards, the Phugat people naturally married in the village, and his descendants, who lived in isolated places, began to marry people with the same blood.
(10)So the Pugat Ilga’s “blue skin” gene continues.
(11)have been continuously
(12)The man of blue light, which was handed down only by word of mouth, was in 1958
(13)Luke Coombs, a man named Luke Combs, took his wife to the University of Kentucky Hospital and made her public.
(14)Yes, yes, yes, yes.
(15)Later, in the 1960s, hematologist Madison Cawein said that they were not able to do so.
(16)He discovered that the cause of having blue skin was a rare disease that appeared to be hemoglobin abnormalities in the blood, and came up with a treatment that could cure the skin.
(17)Named ‘methemoglobinemia’, the rare disease is a recessive factor, for example blood type O, but it turns out that it was better statistically because incest marriages were prevalent at the time.
(18)That means that Elizabeth Smith, Martin Fugart’s wife, also had this gene.
(19)Forty-three years ago, in 1974, the American local newspaper Tri-City Herald published an article about the descendants of the Phugat family.
(20)Charles Berne II, the attending physician at the time, said that he had no idea
(21)”It was as blue as Lake Louise on a cool summer day,” he described.
(22)And by the age of seven, all the blue pigments had disappeared all over the body.
(23)Now, I want to live a happy life with a family just like ordinary people.
(24)He’s living.