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Hunter syndrome
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Hunter syndrome [′hənt·ər ‚sin‚drōm]
(medicine)
An X-linked recessive disease in which a deficiency of the enzyme iduronate sulfatase leads to the accumulation of mucopolysaccharides in various body tissues, resulting in developmental abnormalities, skeletal deformations, mental retardation, and, in severe cases, early death. Also known as mucopolysaccharidosis II.
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Hunter's Syndrome causes cells in the body to be constantly damaged to the point where the body becomes completely crippled.
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Mary Wragg, 41, said her ex-husband told friends, his parents and a very ill girl's mum he would end the life of Jacob, 10, if the condition slowly killing him, Hunter's Syndrome, worsened.
'EX VOWED TO KILL SON' by The Mirror (London, England)
Andrew Wragg, of Worthing, West Sussex, appeared at Chichester Magistrates' Court charged with murdering his 10-year-old son Jacob, who suffered from Hunter's Syndrome.
Dad held over son's death by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
 
 
 
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