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evaluate whether having sickle cell disease would be advantageous or disadvantageous to a person living in central africa

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It's something to do with the fact that having sickle cell anaemia reduces the chances of contracting malaria, obviously a very common disease in Africa. I'm not quite sure what the link is but hopefully this helps a little bit?
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