Not a real-life werewolf

Real life werewolf? Dude just has a lot of hair on his face. ABC recently sent out a story on Danny Ramos Gomez, who suffers from a condition called hypertrichosis. ABC 7 in Los Angeles has the most complete coverage of the story, though there's a better photo gallery at ABC 13 in Toledo, Ohio.

The traditional werewolf is a man (or chick) who transforms into an actual wolf. It's only the Hollywood mythology, legitimate in its own right, that features these crazy wolf-like monsters, beginning with the Wolf-Man, which, OK, this guy does resemble. But the story ABC printed talks mostly about hypertrichosis, and how it causes excess hair, and not anything remotely wolf-like, or werewolf-like. It even quotes Danny's doctor as saying as much. In fact, Danny worked in a circus as a "wolf-boy", and had to deal with being called similar names in public all his life. Thankfully, ABC made his story public, then proceeded to call him a real-life werewolf and give this introduction to the story:

Who hasn't heard about the legend of the werewolf, the creature whose monstrosity is fueled by the light of the moon, who lurks around in the darkness of night, thirsty for blood? Well, scientists now believe some of those wolf-like characteristics were themselves fueled, not by the moon, but by genetics.

ABC is basically emulating PT Barnum, but with decidedly less interesting graphics. I looked up "wolf" in the dictionary and the thesaurus, and nowhere did it say a wolf was a "dude with lots of hair on his face". Cause that would make for a very dull werewolf movie.