What is hemophilia?
Hemophilia is a genetically transmitted disease that can be treated but never cured. Hemophilia is a disease in which your body lacks the substance such as fibrinogen. Fibrinogen is the factor in your blood that helps it clot when dealing with an open wound. Without enough fibrinogen in your body, even a very minor injury could possibly cause something fatal to occur. When the blood in your body does not clot from an open wound, you could possibly bleed out and die. Hemophilia is not like HIV, meaning it cannot be contagious by touch. Hemophiliacs are strictly affected under genetic cause. Both women and men can have hemophilia, but it is more common in men. Why, you may ask? Because hemophilia is found on the X chromosome, which the male carries. However, this does not mean that a woman cannot have the life threatening disease, such as hemophilia.
