The family of a Haitian man says he has survived four weeks under rubble since the devastating earthquake that struck on 12 January.
Doctors said the 28-year-old man was dehydrated and wasted. His brother told the BBC someone had given him water during his 27-day ordeal.
The BBC's Matthew Price spoke to the man's mother in the capital Port-au-Prince and said she was very emotional.
The man is being treated at a field hospital at the airport.
More than 150,000 people were killed in the earthquake, with 1.5 million left homeless, but it is estimated less than 140 people were pulled alive from the rubble in Haiti's capital.
Our correspondent says the man's mother broke down while discussing her son's apparent rescue and said she had not seen him since the quake.
The man is thought to have been pulled out from under the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince on Monday.
Doctors said he was dehydrated and malnourished, and that his condition suggested he had been trapped for a long time.
Dr Dushyantha Jayaweera, of the University of Miami field hospital, told Reuters TV: "It is unusual but not impossible.
"He was quite dehydrated and he was wasted, so there are certain things that suggest that it's true."
Dr Jayaweera described the man's condition as "reasonable".
"He's still sick, he cannot talk to anybody, but we are very optimistic with the condition of the patient."
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