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How you get hemophilia?

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More or less, the answer is you can't. Hemophilia is a genetic disease, not infectious. It is caused by a genetic defect on the X chromosome (I think) that prevents blood from clotting. Thus, even minor wounds, like paper cuts, are potentially deadly. Hemophilics must live a very cautionary life, because any breach to the skin could be fatal. Hemophilia, while not infectious, can be inherited from parent to son. Women can carry hemophilia, meaning they have the defect but do not show symptoms. This is because they have two X chromosomes, and if one is deficient, the other will serve in its place. The only way you can get hemophilia is if a parent or other "direct" ancestor (parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, etc.). So unless you can trace a direct ancestor to having hemophilia (or carrying it), you have nothing to worry about.

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