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Assignment_9_B - Coggle Diagram
Assignment_9_B
- Mosquitos can transmit malaria.. distribution: 85-90% in Sub-Saharan Africa
Estimated 3.4 billion people in 92 countries are ! at risk! of being infected with malaria and developing disease, 1.1 billion are at high risk
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- About 1 in 12 African-Americans living in the US are carriers of the SCT.. contrast: 1/100 US-Americans
While approximately 100,000 Americans have SCD
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- Carriers of the sickle cell trait experience at high altitude..
"Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is one of the common hemoglobinopathies in the world. It can affect any part of the body and one of the most common and an early organ to be affected in SCA is the spleen. Massive splenic infarction which is arbitrarily defined as infarction involving more than 50% of the spleen size is a rare and unique complication of SCA.[1] In sickle cell trait, large splenic infarcts in the normal sized spleen were reported following exposure to hypoxia during high altitude flights in an unpressurized air planes or during mountain climbing.[2,3]"
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Sickle Cell disease(SCD)
has inherited 2 copies, one from each parent
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- Despite the fact that sickle cell disease shortens life expectancy..Carrier frequency between 10-40% across equatorial Africa
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- Why did the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach not allow leading tackler to play game against Denver Broncos?
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