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Sickle Cell Disease is estimated to affect approximately 80,000 persons in the United States alone. Sickle cell disease occurs among people of African ancestry; however it also affects persons of South and Central America, the Mediterranean, Arabia, Italy, the Caribbean, the Middle East and India.
