Each participating lodge will determine the walking distance and location. Cooley's anemia, or thalassemia trait, is a fatal, genetic, blood disorder that primarily strikes people of Mediterranean heritage.
Patients survive by receiving blood transfusions every few weeks.
There is no cure yet, but bone marrow transplants and gene therapy procedures provide hope that there one day will be a cure. More than two million Americans are carriers of the genetic trait for Cooley's anemia. The Cooley's Anemia Foundation, Inc. was designated as an official national charity of OSIA in the late 1980s. All Rights Reserved. Site design by Vizual, Inc.