World Sickle Cell Day 2015: June 19th
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- June 18, 2015
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June 19 is World Sickle Cell Day, meant to raise awareness about the disease that affects millions children every year and significantly reduces their quality of life.
The CDC calls the disease a “significant cause of mortality and morbidity that merits closer consideration,” leading to the deaths of up to 5 percent of children in some African countries. Millions of people worldwide, and thousands of Americans, suffer from this disease, which is inherited and most frequently found in people whose ancestors are from Africa, Mediterranean countries, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and some regions of South America. It occurs in about one in every 500 African American births, and one out of every 36,000 Hispanic American births.
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