Back to category: Medical Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. A.I.D.S. A.I.D.S. The Acronym A.I.D.S. suggests the mystery of a syndrome that has become a major public health problem in the United States and abroad. A.I.D.S., which stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the final and life-threatening stage of infection of the virus H.I.V., human immunodeficiency virus. Cases of A.I.D.S. were first discovered in 1981 in the United States, but researchers have traced cases to as early as 1959, but millions of A.I.D.S. cases have been diagnosed since then, worldwide. A.I.D.S. is caused by a retrovirus named human immunodeficiency virus, H.I.V., which its name refers to the fact that it severely damages the patient’s disease-fighting immune system. The A.I.D.S. virus primarily infects certain white blood cells, including T-helper cells and macrophages, that play a key part in the functioning of the immune system. As a result, A.I.D.S. patient’s can get certain illnesses that don’t n... Posted by: Jack Drewes Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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