Hemophilia-Description

=**DESCRIPTION**=

Hemophilia is caused by a mistake in someones genes. One of their clotting factors are missing or doesn't work properly. When you get a cut the blood clots and takes a long time to stop the bleeding. Hemophilia is the oldest hereditary blood disease. The first description if the disease was recorded by Dr.G.W.C Consbruch. Queen Victoria's 8th child had the disorder, even though there was no history of hemophilia in her family. Also czar Nicholas II had a son, Alexis, who encountered great joint pain dealing with disease.

Picture from wikimedia commons For more info: [|hemophilia] Info from: Freedman, Jeri. //Hemophilia//. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2007. Print.