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Awesome!! 🌠
As cool as this truly is, what’s also wild is now this person doesn’t have the drastically higher chances of surviving Malaria! Sickle Cell requires both parents passing on a recessive gene that helps with Malaria. When one parent passes on the gene it doesn’t lead to sickle cell yet it provides the benefits against malaria 🤯
His chances of catching malaria in New Orleans are pretty slim, so I think that’s a fair trade-off. :)
Between climate change and the current US administration, malaria is starting to reappear over there (but I’m sure he’d rather risk it than stick with Sickle Cell+no piloting).
