Who Gets Sickle Cell Disease?

It doesn’t take much time on the World Wide Web to discover Sickle Cell Anemia is a worldwide problem. Many people falsely believe Sickle Cell is a disease only Black people get. Though it is predominately found in individuals of African descent, it’s not exclusive to them. Sickle Cell exists in countries, and those with ancestral heritage from: Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, India, the Mediterranean and of course Africa, to name only a few. Caucasians can also be born with this illness. You read that right; white people can have Sickle Cell also.