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The Cause of Sickle Cell Anemia

Yu Sheng Wu (Roger) You can’t catch it, you can’t get it, and you can’t get caught by it-yes, that’s Sickle cell anemia for you.

Sickle cell disease is unique. Like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia and downs syndrome. It is an inherited disease. You can get it if you have family history with sickle cell anemia.

Inheriting a disease is a lot like inheriting a house, bank account and a fortune of money. But money and houses and property don’t necessarily bring bad luck right? Well, diseases do.

Try looking into your family tree and dig up records of disease. If you have family records of inherited diseases you are unlucky. However if you don’t get diagnosed with it you are lucky, many inherited diseases are a pain. Why, because people with family history of it are in big trouble and have huge risks of facing this disease.

However, you are in bigger risk if you are an African American or a Hispanic person. 1 out of 500 African Americans are born with it and for Hispanics, I out of 1000 or 1400 are born with it. However, people who trace their roots from sub-Saharan Africa or Spanish speaking regions of the world. Like South America, Cuba and Central America

Are you in any of those roots? If you are, then watch out. If you are from these roots I guess that you might be asking yourself on how to prevent this disease. Well-I guess you have to look out for yourself in my Prevention page. You can link to it right here. Quiz Question: Which type of people have a bigger risk of getting sickle cell anemia?

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