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Woman claiming to be Madeleine McCann will have DNA answers by 'this week' says investigator

A woman who claims to be missing British girl, Madeleine McCann, is set to get answers by the "end of this week" according to an investigator.

The young Polish woman, Julia Wendell, is currently awaiting the results of three DNA samples and a genetics test after she believes she could be the missing girl who vanished whilst on holiday with her family in Praia da Luz.

The 21-year-old sparked fears she has leukaemia after she reportedly said to have been suffering with "pain in her bones" as well as nosebleeds. It comes as The Daily Star reports her initial blood tests came back as "abnormal" according to Dr Fia Johansson.

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Dr Johansson, a private investigator and self-professed psychic, is helping Julia discover her true identity with her asking people around the world to "pray" for Julia adding that further test results should come back any day now.

She said: "Julia is waiting for two answers right now. One is her DNA test. A second is her health.

"Both are very stressful, both making her [...] feel very uncomfortable and vulnerable. Please pray for her health. I can't sleep at night. [I pray] please please please, [by the] end of this week, the doctor will say everything's fine and it's just something else."

As reported by the Daily Record, Dr Johansson previously said Julia had undergone CT and MRI scans, but said she wouldn't learn the results until the doctors had all the information needed to assess Julia's condition.

She said: "If she needs any treatment we will make sure she gets that. She says this is the first time she has experienced love or felt like she belonged in a family." The investigator also issued an update on Julia's DNA results, which she hopes will reveal whether she's Madeleine.

"When the DNA test comes, which I am really badly waiting for and checking every day the status of it, we will match with a DNA test of [Madeleine] McCann," she explained. “[She could also match] anyone else out there looking for their kid that may [be] missing at that time.”

Three-year-old Madeleine went missing while on holiday with her parents in the Algarve region of Portugal in May 2007. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Julia, who has the Instagram handle @IAmMadeleineMcCann gained over one million followers in a short space of time with people keen to see the developments of the case, and any potential outcomes. However the social media account has now been taken down.

According to Julia, evidence pointing towards her being the missing girl who vanished on May 3, 2007 - days before her fourth birthday - is said to be that she looks similar to e-fits predicting what Madeleine would look like today, at age 19, and members of the McCann family.

She also says they both have the same rare eye condition – a coloboma in her right eye, which makes the pupil appear misshapen.

Madeleine McCann is still missing and would currently be 19-years-old. (Photo by Handout/Getty Images)

The Polish woman has said that she has few memories of her childhood with Dr Johansson having discovered that there were no hospital records in Wroclaw – the city she supposedly grew up in – from the first five years of her life, making her believe Julia was trafficked to Poland as a child.

Despite the supposed evidence, however, experts have been sceptical about Julia's claim. Super-recogniser Simone Malik told the Daily Star she doesn't believe the woman is Madeleine and said the pair don't look alike "at all".

She said: “I believe that this isn’t Madeleine McCann – obviously DNA is the only thing that would prove it. On first impressions, when I looked at Julia Wendell I didn’t see any kind of family resemblance – at all.”

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