The Swiss dermatologist who was the first to take an interest in it nicknamed it, in memory of this young woman, the “disease of delayed immigration”. At the end of 2020, the BBC reported on another case, that of Apu Sarker, a young man from Bangladesh, also born without fingerprints, like all the men in his family.
On his identity card there is the mention …
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