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Dangers Of Aids And The Hiv Virus
755 wordsAids. One of the world's largest killers and yet we know so little about it. It kills so many people each year, both men and woman. It's sad that we can t stop it. Aids starts with the HIV virus. This virus can be transmitted through 3 basic ways. Sexual intercourse, blood transfusions, and intravenous drugs. Most people think that they cannot get the virus, even though they have done one or more of the above. In fact, 61% of kids 14-21 have engaged in sexual intercourse. That's over half! Also,...
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Immune Response O Antibody A Globular Protein
437 wordsState the types of organism that can cause disease o Caused by a variety of organisms Bacteria Fungi V Explain how skin and mucous membranes act as barriers against microbes o the skin, with its tough layer of keratin, is an impregnable barrier as long as it is intact. When it is not, large numbers of micro organisms gain ready entry to the body. o Epithelium that forms mucous membranes is more fragile than the skin is constantly flushed with fluids, such as mucus, saliva and tears, that contain...
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High Rate Of Hiv Aid
418 wordsAkram Omar November 20, 2000 Human Variations Reading Summary of HIV / AIDS After reading my notes and articles, I am able to understand HIV / AIDS much better. HIV is the deadly virus, which leads to AIDS. (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) The virus was first observed in people in the 1980's mostly in gay males. Ever since the virus has been growing at an unstoppable rate. Until after 1983-85 when the gay men's alliance started to bring the issue to the public for awareness. This disease was...
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Several Forms Of The Aids Virus
682 wordsThe purpose of this paper will be too show how AIDS is a serious disease in the world today. AIDS, (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a complicated illness, caused by a virus that is passed from person to person. "The disease was first recognized in 1980 among homosexual men and injection drug users in New York and California". Several years after it was recognized, AIDS has become a worldwide epidemic. "By 1995,477,900 Americans had developed the disease, of whom 295,500 had died, and wor...
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Feelings Patients Turn To Aids
1,549 wordsThe reality of AIDS has insinuated itself into everyday life and language over the past decade. Though looked at as a foreigner, AIDS is in our entire society; employment, homes, and our intimate relationships. People with the AIDS virus feel trapped and have a desire to break away from the bondage that this horrible disease has with the person. However, running from the issue at hand only makes the problem worse. With ones own strength and the loving support of others a positive result can be a...
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Hiv Infection And Aids
754 wordsAcquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is a currently recognized disease. It is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which attacks selected cells in the immune system and causes them to function defectively. These deficiencies may not be apparent for years. They lead to the suppression of the immune system's ability to combat harmful organisms. This leaves the body open to invasion by various infections, which are called opportunistic diseases, and to the devel...
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Cause Of Aids As A Virus
3,226 wordsThe media is full of aids stories these days. Articles in different newspapers and magazines headline the death of celebrities, new aids tests, and controversies about who should be tested, promising advances in the research labs, and frustrating and tragic problems of coping with the disease using the treatments available today. Aids is not only pervading the newspapers and magazines, but the television fare as well, not only the news items and features, but also in dramas sitcoms and soap oper...
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Spread Of The Aids Virus A Person
1,378 words"Nearly 90 percent of Russia's HIV infections occur among addicts sharing dirty needles" (Klesius, p. 35). This percentage from a National Geographic magazine would differ heavily from that of the United States. The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation reported that through the year 2002 in the state of Colorado that only 9% of aids cases in the state were due to injection drug use and 25% on the national level. (Kaiser Family Foundation) In the United States, Men who have sex with men would more cl...
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Aids Virus
1,208 wordsViruses have become of great concern all across the world in the last few decades. The most common and the most talked about killer virus is AIDS, a virus that starts out as HIV and then proceeds to develop into a immune breaker that ultimately kills its human host. So far, there is no cure for AIDS, and most unfortunately the numbers of deaths from AIDS only continues to grow. However, another virus has gained much public and national attention. That virus is called Ebola. It is thought that Eb...
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Spread Of Aids In Africa
1,165 wordsAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is one of the most deadly viruses in the world. No country in Africa has escaped the virus. Some have been effected more then others though. The spread of AIDS in Africa is because of poor medical treatment and a lack of education on the part of the people. HIV is the virus which causes AIDS. (Aids in Africa, 1994) HIV stands for Human Immune-deficiency Virus. The virus attacks the bodies' immune system and weakens it. Scientists have wondered about the...
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Aids Virus
368 wordsWe know that AIDS is caused by the HIV virus. It can be diagnosed through a simple blood test. Frequently a person with HIV, the initial stage of AIDS, has no symptoms and might not even think to get tested before engaging in dangerous behavior which could spread the disease. AIDS is the final and almost always fatal stage of HIV disease. It is a complicated illness involving several phases. The virus attacks the immune system and leaves the body vulnerable to many life-threatening diseases caus...
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Willful Transmission Of Aids
1,441 wordsBrief History of AIDS and the Criminalization of Knowingly Transmitting It Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus was discover independently in France in 1983 and in the United States in 1984. In the United States, it was initially identified in 1981. In 1986, a second virus, now called HIV-2, was also discovered in Africa. HIV-2 also causes AIDS. AIDS is transmitted in three ways: From sexual contact without protection, from the...
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Aids Virus In Africa
3,009 wordsA Brief History Of AID S Throughout time there have been many things that have hurt the human race severely. Natural disasters, cancer, famine, and many other dreadful problems. However, what has and still is harming the entire human race the most, is the AIDS virus. The fact that it can spread so quickly and can not be detected very easily is why this is such an issue. One of the places that this virus has hit the hardest is on the continent of Africa. Africa is so poor, and was so unprepared f...
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Aids And Hiv
869 wordsAIDS is the plague of the 20th century, but how much do we really know about this deadly disease HIV is a virus that gets into the body and flows through the bloodstream. AIDS is the disease that is caused by HIV. Once you are diagnosed as HIV positive, you do not automatically have AIDS. There is a possibility of being HIV positive, and not having AIDS. Most people do not know it is the infections that break down the body's immune system rather than the AIDS that kills patients. HIV can be prev...
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Academic And Factual Knowledge Of Aids
959 wordsIn opposition of many academic scholars' opinions, we should not feel that the increase in knowledge and awareness of AIDS in today's youth will put this generation at a lower risk of contracting the disease. Many of the academic elite on the study of AIDS agree with Uzi Brook's statement that the "importance of adequate knowledge about AIDS in relation to infection control is evident" (272). However, I disagree with this statement. The younger generation maybe more learned on the subject of AID...
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Aid To Africa
1,087 wordsAIDS, or acquired immune deficiency, is a deadly virus that kills and damages cells of the body's immune system. When the immune system is attacked, the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers becomes considerably weaker. (Malan, Rian p 70) AIDS is caused by the human immune deficiency virus (HIV) and both can be transmitted through sex, contact with contaminated blood, sharing or syringes or needles, and through birth. Africa, unfortunately, is home to the world's largest number ...
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Aids Virus And One's Immune System
3,168 wordsAIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Disease. It is caused by a virus. The disease originated somewhere in Africa about 30 years ago. There it first appeared as a mysterious ailment afflicting primarily heterosexuals of both sexes. It probably was spread primarily by female prostitutes there. AIDS has already become a crisis of staggering proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it is estimated that over twenty percent of the adults currently carry the virus. That figure is increasing. An...
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Spread Of The Aids Virus
1,082 wordsAIDS from Chimpanzees? Scientists have discovered that the virus that causes AIDS started in a certain type of chimpanzee from Africa. The scientists compared HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) in humans to SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) in chimpanzees. The tests showed that SIV crossed over the species barrier and began infecting humans. The research was done by a group of scientists from the United States, France, and Great Britain. This team of scientists believes that the virus jumped t...
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Epidemic Of Aids
1,407 wordsAIDS, is known as, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome and is the disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The virus is transmitted from one person to another through means of intimate sexual contact or exchange of blood or bodily fluids " (whether from contaminated hypodermic needles or syringes, transfusions of infected blood, or transmission from an infected mother to her child before or during birth) ' (Schaefer; p. 119). AIDS has become a worldwide epidemic that has str...
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Pandemic Of Hiv And Aids Infections
1,567 wordsCan't find it here? Try Collegiate Care AIDS By: Gilbert Gonzales Gonzales 1 The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first discovered in 1981 as a unique and newly recognized infection of the body's immune system (Mellors 3). The name AIDS was formally know as GRIDS (Gay Related Immune Defiance Syndrome). The first case of AIDS was discovered in Los Angeles, where scientists from the CDC (Center for Disease Control) were called in on a half dozen cases. The CDC was convinced what they...
