Incredible transformation of special needs boy, 8, who was found starving and on the brink of death in Bulgarian orphanage before US couple adopted him and nursed him back to health

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Bulgarian orphan Ryan Morse weighed just eight pounds when he was adopted last year by David and Priscilla Morse of Tennessee (pictured left in November 2015 and right in November 2016). The now-eight-year-old child had to be rushed to the hospital as soon as he arrived in the U.S. so doctors could put him on a feeding tube. Mrs Morse said that doctors told her the boy would likely die. But little Ryan prevailed and has since been taken off of his feeding tube. He currently weights 23 pounds and is beginning to speak. Mrs Morse holds Ryan in the center photo, alongside her husband David and their three other children.