Does Sickle Cell Only Affect People of African Descent?

Is it true that sickle cell only impacts people of African descent? Watch as expert Dr. Seethal Jacob shares some population groups that sickle cell occurs in and why it's important to have screening of sickle cell trait in all newborns.

[@babeena_gt_3645]

People that are indian,latinx, and middle eastern ARE of african decent 🤦🏻‍♀️

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[@thewordsmith5440]

Yeah all of those groups have mixed with Africans. There are a group of Indians and Pakistanis called Siddis and AfroArabs have been around since the quranic age. Bilal in the quran was black or at least half black.

[@babeena_gt_3645]

@@thewordsmith5440 the way the world is now I believe everyone is mixed with Afican because it has been proven that the roots to all humanity come from Africa

[@nesheeeev]

So ,why sickle cell disease predominantly observed in the African continent, what's the reason? 🤔

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[@thewordsmith5440]

It was black African's bodies way of preventing malaria infections

[@karimartin999]

I have sickle cell