Bangladeshi girl, 10, with bark-like wart on her face could be first female with ‘tree man syndrome’

A 10-year-old girl could be the first female in the world to become afflicted by the so-called ‘tree man syndrome’.

Sahana Khatun, from Bangladesh, developed a bark-like wart on her face four months ago, which has now spread.

But doctors fear Sahana may be suffering from epidermodysplasia verruciformis – a rare genetic disease that produces scaly, bark-like growths which particularly affect the hands and feet.

So far only men are believed to have been struck by the disease.

Her worried dad said: “We are very poor. My daughter lost her mother when she was only six.