# Sickle-Cell Anemia

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 16, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickle-cell-anemia/82006 "2001-09-16T19:50:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickle-cell-anemia/82006/1 "2001-09-16T19:50:23Z")

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When I was a kid living in New orleans I would hear a lot about sickle-cell anemia on TV and such. It seems you don’t hear about it so much anymore, or at least I don’t. I don’t imagine it has gone away or isn’t around as much. Has it been edged out by AIDS and other diseases for attention? Or is it that I was in the south and in a more urban ocmmunity before (and thus around a higher concentration of African-Americans) than I am in my little northern town now?

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sickle-cell-anemia/82006/2 "2001-09-17T03:50:15Z")

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Some of both. It’s treated better now, too. Wife picked out a pint to be transfused into a patient with sickle cell and he had a spontaneous remission. Sometimes stem cells in donated blood fix things up enough that the person can live normally. They told her to “pick a good one” so she did. But can she pick lottery numbers? “Those pingpong balls aren’t alive.” :rolleyes: