In other studies, bone marrow transplants cured severe sickle cell disease in almost two hundred children.

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People with sickle cell disease can suffer severe pain, bacterial infections and the death of tissue.

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Last week,researchers in the United States reported curing nine adults with sickle cell disease.

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Black people in Africa are the huge majority of those with sickle cell disease.

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