In class today, we talked about the deseise of AIDS. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS destroys your body's ability to fight viruses by weakening and even destroying your immune system. The fist stage of AIDS is actually not called AIDS, but HIV. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus does essentially what AIDS does just not at the same speed, or power. You can get HIV/AIDS in three different ways: HIV positive blood mixing with your blood, unprotected sex with a person who was the virus, or genetically at birth. AIDS is a problem through out the world, but especially in the continent of Africa, where an epidemic of AIDS is killing people left and right.
AIDS DESEISE ATTACKING T-CELL
AIDS kills people by destroying their T-Cells; an immune cell meant, and needed, to fight of deseise. Viruses that would be easily fought off, now can become deadly to the person infected. HIV/ AIDS is never technically what killed a person. It killed off the persons immune system, and then the person became sick to another virus, which they could not fight off, that killed them.
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