A newborn baby has been born with progeria (Picture: Caters)

A boy has been born with a rare condition that means he looks like an 80-year-old man.

The baby was born in the district of Magura, Bangladesh, on Sunday. Local doctors, who have been left stunned, say the baby suffers from a rare condition called progeria.

The baby boy has wrinkles on the face, has a very shrunken body and hollow eyes.

‘The baby does not look like a new born at all. There are prominent sings of ageing such a excessive wrinkles and rough skin texture,’ said a doctor who has been treating the baby.

However, the parents of the baby are jubilant with the birth of their ‘miracle’ child.

However, the parents of the baby are jubilant with the birth of their ‘miracle’ child.

p>‘We can only thank God. There is no need to be unhappy about the appearance of my son. We will accept him the way he is. We are so happy to have a baby boy in the house,’ he said.

Progeria is a rare genetic condition that causes a child’s body to age faster than it should.

Most children with the condition – which affects just one in every 4million births worldwide – don’t live past the age of 13.

It is caused by a single mistake in a particular gene, which causes it to make abnormal protein. When cells use this protein, called progerin, they break down more easily.

Progerin builds up in many cells of children with progeria, thereby causing them to age more quickly.

Although most children with the condition appear healthy when they are born, they start to show signs of the disease during their first year.