Nihal Bitla, the face of Progeria in India passed away on Tuesday at his grand parent’s place in Telangana.
Progeria made Nihal’s body age eight times faster, so this 15-year-old teenager was trapped in 90-year-old’s body, suffering from severe arthritis and rapidly ageing organs. His death from complications of the disease, was announced on his Facebook page run by the Boston-based Progeria Research Foundation.
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