Getting treatment right away for high fevers (which can be a sign of a severe infection) also helps prevent death in infants and children who have sickle cell anemia. It’s also important to get treatment right away for a cough, problems breathing, bone pain, and headaches. The segments of the population that is prone to getting sickle cell anemia are mostly African Americans, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Asian Indian, ancestry and
Latino-American population particularly those of the Caribbean. More than hundred million worldwide have the trait; in the United States, one in every five hundred African-American births and one out of every one thousand to one thousand-four hundred Hispanics births is affected by sickle cell anemia. Another two million