4/25/15
English 4
African American are greatly affected by SCD, doctors are struggling to find out why. 1 in 12 African Americans are living with the Sickle Cell trait. This means 100,000 people in the U.S alone are affected by this disease most are of African descant. This disease is commonly found in the Middle East, India, and Mediterranean which are of African Heritage.
The first report of SCD was reported in December 1904, The patient was a man name Walter Clement Noel. The doctor who diagnosed him was James Bryan Herrick. When Dr. Herrick looked at Noel's blood cells he discovered that his cells were irregularly shaped. He called his blood cells "peculiar, elongated and sickle-shaped.
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