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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
Approximate word count: 1492
Approximate pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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1. Hiv/Aids Pandemic
   

   HIV/AIDS pandemic. ... This demonstrated that the world community was not willing
   to dismiss the HIV/AIDS problem without a passport any longer. ...

2. Hiv/Aids
   

   HIV/AIDS. The issue of HIV/AIDS has been a developing concern since the early
   1980's. ... AIDS was first identified in the United States in 1981. ...

3. Aids Hiv
   

   aids hiv. ... Another major factor is education. The lack of proper sex education in
   many minority schools plays a huge role in the number of cases of HIV/AIDS. ...

4. Hiv/Aids: A Pandemic
   

   HIV/AIDS: A Pandemic. ... Men having sex with men and people exposed through
   heterosexual contact made up the majority of HIV/AIDS cases. ...

5. Hiv And Aids
   

   ... The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that there are
   now over 40 million people living with HIV or AIDS worldwide. ...