Man with No Fingerprints Detained at Airport

I wonder how many other  people are unaware their fingerprints have vanished.

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Man without fingerprints detained at airport
Ian Simple  |  The Guardian  |  Wednesday 27 May 2009

US immigration officials detained a man at an airport for four hours after customs checks revealed he had no fingerprints. The 62-year-old man, identified only as Mr S, is thought to have lost his fingerprints as a result of a rare side-effect of capecitabine, a common anti-cancer drug. Mr S, who had been taking the drug for more than three years, was unaware that his fingerprints had vanished. He was released after customs officials interviewed him. The incident happened last year but only came to light after his doctor published a report on the case in the journal Annals of Oncology yesterday.