Chinese woman Zhang Ruifang, aged 101, has become a star in her
Linlou village, Henan province. The elderly woman grew a horn on
her forehead, above her left eye a year ago. Now the woman grows
another horn – above the right eye, Express Gazeta
wrote.
It all started with the appearance of a small pimple, which the
old lady ignored. However, the pimple grew into a 2.4-inch horn
like that of a goat. Another pimple appeared on the woman’s
forehead symmetrically to the horn.
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The woman attracts a lot of attention: residents of neighboring
villages visit Linlou to take a look at the devil’s horn.
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Zhang says that she does not feel any discomfort about the horn.
Her six children fear that their mother would eventually
turn into a goat, The Daily Mail wrote.
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Her youngest son, a 60-yearold-man, said that the second horn
was growing faster than the first one. The children also worry that
they could inherit the bizarre abnormality from their mother.
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The woman has not seen a doctor yet. Local medics say that there
is nothing supernatural about the old lady’s horns. The phenomenon
is known in medicine as the cutaneous horn.
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This is a funnel-shaped growth and although most are only a few
millimetres in length, some can extend a number of inches from the
skin.
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Cutaneous horns are made up of compacted keratin, which is the
same protein we have in our hair and nails, and forms horns, wool
and feathers in animals, The Daily Mail said.
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They usually develop in fair-skinned elderly adults who have a
history of significant sun exposure but it is extremely unusual to
see it form protrusions of this size.
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The growths are most common in elderly people, aged between 60
and the mid-70s. They can sometimes be cancerous but more than half
of cases are benign.
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