News about Madison Cawein

Have you ever found yourself feeling a bit blue? Well, for one Kentucky family's ancestors, the word has taken on a new and tragic sense. The Fugate family has been fighting an extremely rare blood disorder that has caused generations of male and women to be tarnished with blue skin, providing a lingering reminder of the 'interbreeding' that took place between their ancestors. The elusive 'blue people of Kentucky', who can be traced back to a man named Martin Fugate, left physicians baffled for decades before one blood specialist in the 1960s discovered they were suffering from methemoglobinemia.