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| quote: | The world's hairiest man is recovering at a Shanghai hospital after undergoing an operation to remove hair that had impaired his hearing, the Xinhua news agency reports.Yu Zhenhuan, a 26-year-old Chinese rock singer, had lost a third of his hearing due to excess hair inside his ears and had suffered from constant headaches, Xinhua reported.
He underwent a four-hour operation at a Shanghai hospital where doctors cut skin from his ears, removed the hair and follicles to prevent the hair from growing back and then reattached the skin to his ears.
"It was a successful operation," a doctor at the hospital said.
"He's still hospitalised."
Yu was listed in 2002 as the world's hairiest man by the Guinness Book of Records, Xinhua said.
Ninety-six per cent of Yu's body is covered with hair, except for his palms and the soles of his feet.
The density of hair on Yu's body reaches an average of 41 hairs per square centimetre, with each hair ranging in length from one to six centimetres.
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The hair in Yu's ears were two to three centimetres long.
Doctors found Yu's ears were stuffed with hair, making him vulnerable to infections.
As a child, Yu starred in a film called China's Number One Hairy Child and later became a singer.
Still referred to as the "hairy child," Yu said he had never thought about ridding himself of all the hair and did not shave any part of his body other than his beard, the Guangzhou Daily said.
Removing the hair would mean taking away a part of his personality and would show he had lost confidence in being who he was, Yu said.
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