The attached link directs you to the sickle-cell website, dedicated to supporting sufferers of the condition. In their words "The Sickle Cell Society believes that every sickle cell sufferer has the right to quality care."
Sickle cell can not be "caught". It is an inherited genetic disease and is only in the African American community.
St. Judes is currently doing research to help the cure of the sickle disorder.
There are some people in the society who try to capitalize the chronic illnesses like the sickle cell anemia. But then they are the ones who take care of the children and not you.
No. It is a generally found only in the African/ American community.
The shape of the cell is misshapen.
Sickle Cell....... My son has been diagnosed with sickle cell trait. We are white and the doctors called it Sickle Cell Trait! hope this helps...
An example of point-mutation is sickle-cell anemia. Sickle-cell disease is hereditary.
The sickle cell trait is that you dont have the whole thing you have half of it which is called the trait
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Yes, a child can be born with sickle cell disease if one parent is a sickle cell carrier and the other parent is normal. In this case, there is a 25% chance that the child will inherit two copies of the sickle cell gene, resulting in sickle cell disease.