Fight Sickle Cell Disease!

      Sickle Cell diease is an an inherited condition. The genes a person receives from one's parents before birth determines whether a person will have sickle cell diease. Sickle Cell Diease canot be caught or passed to another person. One in every 12 African Americans is acarrier of sickle cell diease. If a carrier mates and produces a child with another carrier, that child may suffer from sickle cell disease. The disease affects the genes that produce hemoglobin for your red blood cells. It is the hemoglobin that keeps oxygen in the lungs and delivers it throughtout your body. This causes organs, such as the liver, to break down and not work as it should. This leds to sickness and pain.

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