Known as the blue people, the Fugates and others afflicted with the condition lived in the Kentucky hills of ... members of the family suffered from methemoglobinemia, a rare hereditary blood ...

Eventually, the story of these blue people got out and they became ... blue depending on the concentration of methemoglobin. When Fugate moved to Kentucky, he had no idea of his family ...

Rare genetic condition gives people blue skin color ... a rare blood condition called methemoglobinemia -- the same disorder that affected the Blue Fugates of Kentucky. "I was picked on as ...

For years, people have posted images and stories on the internet about a family from Kentucky who had blue-colored skin. Understandably, some viewers have questioned whether these stories and ...

Genetics and in-breeding cause six generations of family to turn blue ... in Eastern Kentucky. Doctors don't see much of the rare blood disorder today, because mountain people have dispersed ...

The idea of blue-skinned people may ... Fugate moved to Eastern Kentucky and met Elizabeth Smart. Despite not being related, the lovebirds carried the gene for methemoglobinemia, a super-rare ...

People with the disorder have chocolate-colored blood and blue skin. In genetic cases of methemoglobinemia ... who lived in isolation in the hills of Kentucky from 1800 to 1960.

The Fugates' son also had methemoglobinemia at birth, but he grew out of it by the age of five. Their granddaughter also had it for just a few months. The story of the 'blue people of Kentucky ...

Recently, the fascinating story of the Fudgates, the 'blue-skinned' family that lived in the Kentucky hills of ... by a strange condition called methemoglobinemia, which left thein skin ...

I’m beginning to wonder why we don’t see more blue people. In Kentucky, there is a family ... The Fugates had inherited methemoglobinemia. Everyone has hemoglobin, the cell in the blood ...

The story of the Blue Fugates, or the Blue people of Kentucky can be found online. There are some family researchers that say Peter LaFougate (1650-1695) was the first immigrant to America from ...

but many people get it when they take certain medications or recreational drugs or are exposed to certain chemicals. Methemoglobinemia can be life-threatening. Methylene blue is a cure for the ...