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The Blue People of Troublesome Creek (1982)
- rspeer 11y agoThis was a good read, thanks. I love this Kentuckian medical assessment: > "They were bluer'n hell," Cawein says.
- arjn 11y agoNice! interesting read. I searched online for some photos and more information and there is some confusion between actual blue people and people who turned blue due to some chemical (silver colloid) action. Also, there seems to be a lack of trustworthy photographs of people with the inherited severe methemoglobinemia condition. I searched for about 5-6 minutes and couldn't find a good source.
- matryoshka4811 11y agoI remember reading this piece in my AP biology class senior year of high school. I was born in central Kentucky and this story (this exact article actually) is used very often in upper level biology classes as a case study in genetics.