Sickle cell anemia is most resistant to which disease?

Malaria

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Filaria

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Dengue

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Chicken pox

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Solution

The correct option is A Malaria
Sickle cell haemoglobin confers a survival advantage against malaria, the disease caused by Plasmodium infection. Sickle cell anaemia is a blood disease in which red blood cells reveal an abnormal crescent shape when observed under a microscope.

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