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The Fugates, commonly known as the "Blue Fugates" [1] or the "Blue People of Kentucky", are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to appear blue.
21 mar 2023 · Learn about the Fugate family, a group of people with a rare blood disorder that turned their skin blue for generations. Discover how they lived in isolation, sought a cure, and became the last of the blue people of Kentucky.
5 sie 2023 · Learn about the Fugate family, a group of people with blue skin due to a genetic mutation, who lived in isolation in Eastern Kentucky for centuries. Discover how a doctor identified the cause of their condition and how they became a subject of superstition and legend.
6 mar 2023 · For more than a century, these Appalachian families passed along an exceedingly rare genetic blood condition that turned their skin a disarming shade of blue. Embarrassed by their bluish hue, the families retreated even further from society, which only exacerbated the problem.
14 sie 2023 · The Fugates were a family that lived in the early 1800s commonly known as the “Blue Fugates” or “Blue People of Kentucky”. They were born with a genetic trait that led to a blood disorder called methemoglobinemia, which causes the skin to turn blue.
20 cze 2018 · In the hills of eastern Kentucky, there was a clan of folk who seem to have shared a genetic anomaly that, in effect, rendered them blue. After ruling out heart and lung diseases, the doctor suspected methemoglobinemia, a rare hereditary blood disorder.
12 sie 2022 · We'll start by saying that, yes, the Fugate family line that originated in a secluded region known as Troublesome Creek, east of Louisville, Kentucky, in the Appalachian Mountains, did have a...
