How did the disease called sickel cell anemia come about. Has it any cure?!


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How did the disease called sickel cell anemia come about. Has it any cure?


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It is a genetic disease. To get it both your mother and father are carriers of the gene (sickle cell trait), however you need both genes to have the disease (this is known as an autosomal recessive genetic disease).

It is prevelent in people of African or Mediteranean origin. If you have this gene, your red blood cells are destroyed more quickly. This offers some protection against malaria, and it is no co-incidence that countries that have a high prevelance of sickle cell disease also have a high prevelance of malaria.

There is no cure.




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