• Question: What is the worst kind of disease that an affect the blood?

    Asked by explosion to Irene on 7 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by niamh costi.
    • Photo: Irene Regan

      Irene Regan answered on 7 Nov 2015:

      There are lots of diseases that affect the blood and they affect people in different ways, depending whether they are young or old, sick or well. But the worst diseases are the ones that we cannot find a cure for or the medicine doesn’t work or stops working (:
      Sometimes it is better NOT to say what the bad ones are because they sometimes are bad in one person and not in another.
      But the good news is we can now treat lots of blood diseases that we couldn’t treat before you were born and that is because of the great work of people such as scientists.
      Check-out the great news on this little girl:
      “Gene-editing technique works ‘incredibly well’ on young girl with leukaemia”
      http://www.rte.ie/news/player/2015/1106/20875272-gene-editing-technique-works-incredibly-well-on-young-girl-with-leukaemia/

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