The US Department of Health responds to a strange request from a child
The Rhode Island Department of Health said it was unable to "definitively confirm or refute the presence of Santa Claus" in the home of a young girl who asked for DNA composition details of the remains of a partially eaten cookie for DNA to see if Santa was real. No.
And the police announced earlier this month that they had received a sample of a biscuit cake and carrot pieces, part of which had been consumed, and its owner, a young girl, demanded that she conduct a DNA test to ascertain whether the beloved fictional character, Santa Claus, ate it on Christmas Eve last.
And the Examinations Department of the Ministry of Health tweeted, according to the “AB” agency, commenting: “We all agree that something magical may play its role (here).”
The department said it did not find complete matches for anyone in the combined DNA marker system, but said there was a partial match "with a 1947 case centered around 34th Street in New York City," a reference to the movie "Miracle on 34th Street."
Which tackles the same issue with a group of kids who want to check whether or not a famous gift-giver exists.
The funny statement said that the ministry "will need more DNA samples" from other known Santa encounters to make a final match.
The department said the "good news" is that the lab detected DNA that closely matched Rangifer tarandus, commonly known as reindeer, when testing the carrots.
Cumberland Chief of Police Matthew Benson said on Friday that the girl, also a Cumberland resident, had sent the carrot cakes to the city's police department to ask if they could be tested for DNA.
Benson, in turn, sent the "evidence" to the Department of Forensic Sciences of the state's Ministry of Health for analysis, and the results appeared last Monday.
The parents usually eat the biscuits and carrots that the children leave for the night visitor as a sign of good hospitality, only to find them the next morning being nibbled and left beside the holiday gifts.
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