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And the symptoms have worsened since then, making his skin as fragile as a butterfly’s wings.“Even simple scratching or rubbing of his skin causes it to blister and peel off, leading to painful wounds and ulcers. Experimentally, experts said, the child’s condition can almost be cured using genetically modified skin graft. He has wrinkled and eroded skin and has no fingers or toes,” he said. Both these tests are very expensive and the child’s family cannot afford them,” skin specialist Aayush Gupta, who runs the genodermatoses laboratory at the hospital, said.He added, “The boy cries a lot. The disease is found to occur only in one per million live births, experts said..