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Is it true that having sickle cell anemia makes you immune to aids?
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No; immue to malaria: Good evening, developing the sickle shape of red blood cells is an evolutionary process, by which the space for malaria parasites to occupy inside is reduced and hence less susceptible to malaria. The evolution took place over hundreds of thousands of years of existing together in africa with malarial parasites. Sickle-cell anemia does not offer any protection from developing aids.
Answered 1/26/2013
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