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How does the sickle cell trait prevent the inflammation of blood vessels that usually occurs with malaria?​

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the sickle cells have membranes stretched by their usual shape that becomes porous and leak nutrients that the parasite needs to survive and the faulty cells eventually get eliminated quite fast by the organisms destroying the parasite among the way
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