A new study from Kosti Teaching Hospital in Sudan found intestinal parasitic infections in 86 percent of children with sickle cell anemia and 82 percent of non-sickle cell children, with no statistically significant link between sickle cell status and infection, pointing to environmental rather than genetic drivers.
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