AIDS/HIV


Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, better known as AIDS, is caused by
the incurable HIV virus. AIDS is a deadly disease that deteriorates the immune
system. There are two groups of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), HIV-1 that
occurs throughout the world and HIV-2 that mainly occurs in Africa. The HIV
virus enters the white blood cells and takes over the reproductive system of
that cell and uses the system to reproduce itself. The white blood cell dies
and the new HIV cells infect other white blood cells and repeat the process.
The Person with the disease will eventually die because the white blood cell
dies off tottally.
If you have become infected with the AIDS disease you may not have any
symptoms of the disease for the next ten years. People with the HIV virus
usually look and feel healthy and may not even know that they are infected.
Even though they don't look or feel sick, they can still infect others.
When the symptoms do start to happen they can be......

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