Byline: Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- Young black children in Florida appear to die from sickle cell disease at double the national rate, a federal scientist says in a new study.
The research, reported Thursday in the government journal Public Health Reports, was based solely on death certificates and so could not explain the disparity between states. In contrast to Florida, death rates in Pennsylvania and Maryland were strikingly lower than the national average.
One theory on Florida is that the state must struggle to reach at-risk immigrants, particularly Haitians, so they can get the daily antibiotic treatment needed to increase young children's …
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