The Department of Health (DoH) announced Tuesday that a reported “mysterious disease” that allegedly eats the flesh of its victims in Pangasinan is a hoax.
A staff of DOH Undersecretary Teodoro Herbosa told Manila Bulletin Online that “there is no such disease that exists.”
Based from their research, the said mysterious flesh eating disease is actually psoriasis and leprosy.
Psoriasis is a skin disease that causes itchy or sore patches of thick, red skin with silvery scales. It usually develops on the elbows, knees, scalp, back, face, palms and feet or other parts of the body. Psoriasis can be hard to diagnose because it can look like other skin diseases.
Meanwhile, leprosy is an infectious disease that causes severe disfiguring skin sores and nerve damage in the arms and legs.
Earlier, a television news program reported that the queer disease has affected two people in Sta. Barbara and Villasis, Pangasinan. The news caused some to panic as it allegedly coincided with the prophecy of Vincent Selvakumar and Jesus Ministries founder Sadhu Sundar Selvaraj of a mysterious disease that will spread from Pangasinan.
Hours after the report, the hashtag #PrayForPangasinan trended on Twitter.
Selvaraj is the man who prophesied that a flood would destroy Samar and Leyte that was later believed to be the one caused by super typhoon Yolanda. (Mary Rose A. Hogaza)
Source: Inquirer
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