AIDS and Its Causes


1.INTRODUCTION

In June 1981, the centers for The Disease Control of the United States
reported that five young homosexual men in the Los Angels area had contracted
Pneumocystis Carinii pneumonia( a kind of pneumonia that is particularly found
in AIDS patient). 2 of the patients had died. This report signalled the
begninning of an epidemic of a viral disease characterized by immunosuppression
associated with opportunistic infection( an infection caused by a microrganism
that does not normally produce disease in human; it occurs in persons with
abnomality functioning immune system), secondary neoplasms( any abnormal growth
of new tissue, benign or malignant) and neurologic mainfestation, which has come
to be known as AIDS.
Though Aids was first discovered in U.S.A, AIDS has been reported from
more than 163 countries around the world and an estimated 10 million people are
infected worldwide. Worsestill, the pool of HIV- infected persons in Africa is
large and......

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