HIV/AIDS
History
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), is a human viral disease that destroys the immune system, which prevents the body from combating infection and disease. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which leaves infected persons susceptible to opportunistic infections. Such infections are not fatal in HIV negative persons, but in those whose immune systems have been weakened by the virus, they can be deadly. HIV is believed to have begun in isolated parts of central Africa where the retrovirus made the jump from chimpanzees to humans. Evidence of this was found when retroviruses in AIDS patients appeared more similar to those found in the chimpanzees than to other human retroviruses. It is likely that the retrovirus infected people who ingested chimpanzee meat and it subsequently underwent mutations to form the human retrovirus. Scientists have confirmed that the virus made the jump from chimpanzees to humans around the 1940s or 1950s.......

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Title: Comapring The Response To Hiv/Aids And Sars
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