World Sickle Cell Day: Why Half of Children Born With Sickle Cell Disease May Never Reach Age Five
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Long before science explained the mysteries of genetics, many Nigerian communities sought answers in folklore. Among the Yoruba, children who died repeatedly in infancy were believed to be Abiku, spirits doomed to return to the world only to die again.…