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     The problem is that reaping hook cell anemia affects about 72,000 Ameri natess in the United States. Sickle cell anemia is an hereditary disease in which the body is unable to produce normal hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein. Abnormal hemoglobin can morph cells that can become lodged in narrow extraction vessels, blocking oxygen from reaching organs and tissues. The effects of sickle cell anemia are bouts of extreme pain, infectious, fever, jaundice, stroking, slow growth, organ, and failure.     Sickle cell anemia hurts numerous people today in fact it hurts about 72,000 Americans. But some doctors are finding cures for this inherited disease. This disease causes mainly strokes and fever. With this disease a stroke is non predictable, a stroke can happen as early as a one month old as a baby. It can hurt a person really bad because it causes them to non be able to do many things like cant play sports, and things that gets you r heart pumping because if the red declination cells gets clogged up it can causes a stroke because oxygen cant flow. Most Americans who have sickle cell anemia are of African descent. The disease in addition affects Americans from the Caribbean, Central America, and parts of South America, Turkey, Greece, Italy, the Middle East and East India. Since sickle cell anemia is an inherited disease if both parents have the trait for sickle cell, their babys chances of having sickle cell disease is one in four.     Many doctors are trying to find cures for this disease by trying the solution on patients. Doctors at Emory University and University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Chicago. Doctors in Emory University in Atlanta credited an experimental stem cell transplant that for the first time is not from a related donor. This transplant cured the inherited disease from Keone Penn who is 13 geezerhood old from Georgia. He suffered a stroke at 5 years old an d had a fever of 106 degrees, "I almost died" (Ferraro, Newspaper Article) What the doctors did was replaced the boys bone marrow with stem cells taken from the umbilical cord blood of an infant not related to him. Dr. Ruby Bellevue of New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn has patient that he wants to do the transplant procedure on, but he is waiting for more(prenominal) studies to come out to see what the long-term effects are. Some effects could be rejection, complications, and/or death.