How do you get cystic fibrosis?

"Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease. That means that if both parents have cystic fibrosis, so will any children that they have. If one parent has cystic fibrosis and the other...

a child with cf has parents which 'carry' the cf gene therefore they do not have it

Yes, since the disease is a recessive inherted trait BOTH parents must carry the gene but not nessacarily have the disease itself. Approximately 30,000 people in the United States have cystic...

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease and can only be inherited through genes.It all depends on your parents alleles. Let's say that the allele for cystic fibrosis is c. If your Mum has the allele Cc...

No. You can be a carrier of the CF gene and be healthy. If you have Cystic Fibrosis it would more than likely show in early childhood. Both your parents would have to be a carrier of the gene for you...