Family in Nigeria Lost 3 Daughters to Sickle Cell. Can They Save a Fourth? December 21, 2021 Auto Bot Africa, Blood, Children and Childhood, Deaths (Fatalities), Genetics and Heredity, National Institutes of Health, Sickle Cell Anemia, stroke, Tests (Medical) 0 About 150,000 babies are born each year in Nigeria with sickle cell, a deadly disease. Tens of thousands of them die annually before their fifth birthdays.