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The Fugates, commonly known as the "Blue Fugates" [1] or the "Blue People of Kentucky", are an ancestral family living in the hills of Kentucky starting in the 19th century, where they are known for having a genetic trait that led to the blood disorder methemoglobinemia, causing the skin to appear blue.
Methemoglobinemia, or methaemoglobinaemia, is a condition of elevated methemoglobin in the blood. [2] Symptoms may include headache, dizziness, shortness of breath, nausea, poor muscle coordination, and blue-colored skin (cyanosis). [2]
Cussy Mary is the last of the Kentucky Blues; her family carries a recessive gene that causes methemoglobinemia, a blood disorder causing the skin to appear blue. Cussy Mary and her father receive violent and discriminatory treatment from other people, and are considered "colored".
Blue people may refer to: Methemoglobinemia, a disorder that can turn skin blue the Blue Fugates, an Appalachian family with congenital methemoglobinemia; Cyanosis, a general medical condition that can turn skin blue Blue baby syndrome, cyanosis in babies; A name for the Tuareg people, from their traditional clothing
One hundred and four years ago this month, on Oct. 31, 1919, a white mob in Corbin, Ky., rounded up approximately 200 Black people, drove them onto boxcars, and sent them to Knoxville, Tenn.
On July 9, 2016 residents of Hull City in northern England were seeing blue. No this was not a rare medical phenomena, but thousands of people painted blue for artist Spencer Tunick's latest project.
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Troublesome Creek in Hindman, Kentucky. Troublesome Creek is a creek in Breathitt, Perry and Knott counties, Kentucky, a fork of the North Fork Kentucky River. [1] It is 41.46 miles (66.72 km) long with a gradient of 8.92 feet per mile (168.9 cm/km), normally free-flowing, and with banks that vary between tree-lined and open.