Ranchi babies with a fast ageing disorder

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Keshav Kumar, who is just 18 months old, and his sister Anjali Kumari, 7, were born a bizarre condition that leaves them looking 10 times their age. The children with senile, wrinkled faces have already experienced joint pains, brittle bones, breathing issues and other age-related ailments. According to their father - "When Anjali was born, after three months of her birth she got Pneumonia, her parents took her to a doctor for treatment. After few months of Pneumonia her parents noticed that her skin had loosened up. They again took her to doctor and they got to know that their daughter is suffering from a disease called cutis laxa, a connective tissue disorder, or, progeria, a premature ageing disease." Progeria, also known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS), is a rare genetic