| Andrea Prader's Buccal Swabs | |
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Origin |
Andrea Prader |
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Type |
Buccal Swabs (30 Collected) |
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Effects |
Causes Prader-Willi syndrome |
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Downsides |
Victim will eat themselves to death |
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Activation |
Swiping a person's cheek |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Aisle |
Disease Aisles |
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Shelf |
401349-2534-548 |
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Date of Collection |
7/15/2010 |
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Origin[]
Andrea Prader (1919 - 2001) was a Swiss scientist, physician and pediatric endocrinologist who co-discovered the Prader-Willi syndrome. Prader-Willi syndrome is a genetic disorder due to the loss of function of specific genes. Post-newborn symptoms include a constant, insatiable hunger; intellectual impairment; behavioral problems; narrow foreheads; small hands and feet, and infertility.
Although the chance of having PWS is 1 out of 30,000, both sexes are effected equally, and location is not known as a factor, doctors discovered an alarming amount of people afflicted. It was labeled an unexplained phenomenon due to normal adults suddenly developing the disorder later in life.
Effects[]
Due to the sudden deletion of certain genes, these swabs will inflict a victim with Prader-Willi syndrome. Although there are multiple symptoms, the most notable will be that of polyphagia (excessive hunger).
Victims will, among other symptoms, be compelled to eat more and more food constantly. In addition to choking hazards, eating too much food without stopping runs the risk of tearing the tissues of various organs and even rupturing the stomach.
Collection[]
Doctor [Redacted] was discovered have found the swabs and discovered they were artifacts. Because his own child was afflicted with the disorder, which has no known cure, he voluntarily began inflicting other people using the swabs to raise more awareness in the hopes of a treatment or cure being developed more quickly.