I. Description

During the Dark Ages, a plague struck the world. The plague not only infected humans but was originally infected the life stock. During the Dark Ages, medical technology was not a advanced as it is today. Despite our several modern miracles of science, we are as still plagued with a killer disease, HIV. The arrival of a new and lethal virus caught us off guard. Research suggests that the agent responsible for AIDS probably dates from the 1950s, with a chance infection of humans by a modified Simian virus found in African green monkeys.
AIDS is thought to be caused primarily by a virus that invades white blood cells (lymphocytes) - especially T4-lymphocytes or T-helper cells - and certain other body cells, including the brain. In 1983 and 1984, French and U.S. researchers independently identified the virus believed to cause AIDS as an unusual type of slow-acting retrovirus now called "human immunodeficiency virus" or HIV. Like other viruses, HIV is basically a......

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Title: Hiv/Aids
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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