Extraordinary People (2003 TV series)
Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the lives of people with a rare medical condition and/or unusual ability. People featured have or had rare illnesses such as rabies and eye cancer. Many of these people do activities previously thought impossible for people in their condition. The show began airing on 28 March 2003. List of people featured Petero Byakatonda, a Crouzon syndrome patient Ellie, Georgie, Holly, and Jessica Carles, the only identical quadruplets in Britain David Fitzpatrick, fugue state (amnesia) sufferer Jeanna Giese, the first rabies survivor, who was administered the Milwaukee protocol after being bitten by an infected bat Abby and Brittany Hensel, dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins Akrit Jaswal, who performed his first surgery at age seven Dede Koswara, an Indonesian man with a form of HPV (epidermodysplasia verruciformis) which causes tree-like growths Florence "Flo" & Katherine "Kay" Lyman, identical twin female autistic savants Cameron Macaulay, a boy who claims to have memories of a past life on the Island of Barra, Scotland. José Mestre, who suffered a huge, life-threatening facial tumor John and Jeanette Murphy, an American couple who, in addition to having four children of