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Basic health interventions may significantly reduce deaths among young children with sickle cell anemia (镰状细胞血症). The illness causes the body to produce sickle or disc shaped red blood cells making it difficult for them to (36) oxygen from the lungs. The number of newborns with the inherited blood disease is increasing, (37) in sub-Saharan Africa.
A new study in PLOS Medicine says by 2050 over 400-thousand babies will be born every year with sickle cell anemia. Sherry Webb is given an (38) for pain relief by a nurse at the Sickle Cell Center in Truman Medical Center, Wednesday, March 7, 2007 in Kansas City. Pain management is vital in the care of patients (39) from Sickle Cell disease. That’s an increase of about 100-thousand per year. Most of those births will occur in Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo and India. The three countries (40) for 75 percent of sickle cell newborns in 2010. Dr. Frederic Piel led the research by the University of Oxford in Kenya.
"It’s a genetic disorder and if you (41) one copy of the gene from one of your parents, you don’t have any symptoms and you’re called a (42) or a heterozygote individual. If you inherit two copies from your parents, then you have sickle cell anemia, which is quite (43) and lethal in countries where there is no treatment (44) ," he said.
It was initially limited to malaria endemic areas, but because of population (45) it’s now common in many other parts of the world. So this is clearly a global burden and it’s going to increase.
A. accounted B. inherit C. several D. available E. enlargement
F. transport G. experiment H. carrier I. suffering J. send
K. injection L. possible M. movement N. especially O. severe

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