World Thalassemia Day 2013
From the Blog ayesha May 8th is observed as World Thalassemia Day. What is thalassemia? Thalassemia is an inherited characteristic of the blood. It reduces the amount of hemoglobin in a human body, leading to anemia. Deficiency or a lesser count of red blood cells, or too little hemoglobin in blood, is Anemia – which simply means a shortage of blood. There are two main types of thalassemia, thalassemia minor [carrier state], thalassemia major [disease state]. When two thalassemia minors marry each other there are 50% chances in each delivery of having a child with thalassemia major. Every year 5000 to 6000 children are born with thalassemia in Pakistan and thalassemia major's only cure is blood transfusion; they remain transfusion dependant through-out their lives. It is said an ounce of preventpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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