Werewolves

Police in Wales have launched a hunt for a mysterious recluse who lives deep in local woodland and who has been connected to a series of thefts in the area. Nicknamed "Wolfman", he has so far managed to elude all attempts at capture."He ekesout a solitary existence deep in the woods, surviving by snaring rabbits and foraging for berries.

But when nature alone cannot satisfy his needs, the shaggy bearded recluse will leave his lair and, with the stealth of a wild animal, go on the prowl for other prey in the nearby villages. Locals call him "The Wolfman" and blame him for a series of thefts of milk from their doorsteps. "

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Australian scientists have conducted a study suggesting that people exhibit more violent tendancies during a full moon and that those admitted to hospitals due to "werewolf-like" behaviour were also admitted during that same lunar phase."Some people are moreviolent and exhibit tendencies comparable to werewolves during a full moon, according to Australian scientists.

A study conducted at the Calvary Mater Newcastle Hospital, north of Sydney, found that in the year to July, 91 emergency patients with violent, acute disturbances comparable to werewolves wereadmitted."

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The gene that causes some people to be covered in thick hair has been identified by scientists.There are less than 100 cases of "werewolf syndrome" worldwide, the condition results in a coat of thick hair sprouting all over the body and face thus giving the sufferer the appearance of a werewolf. Proffessor Xue Zhang of Peking Union Medical College has been testing a man with the condition andhas located extra genes on the X chromosome which may be responsible for the abnormal hair growth.

Hypertrichosis, sometimes called "werewolf syndrome" is a very rare condition, with fewer than 100 cases documented worldwide. But researchers knew the disorder runs in families, and in 1995 they traced the approximate location of the mutation to a section of the X chromosome (one of the two sexchromosomes) in a Mexican family affected by hypertrichosis.  

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