Death Sentence Virus

A deadly virus that was originated in the early 80’s of the twentieth century has become a crisis for the whole world today. For a period of time it was known as a death sentence virus. There is a stage before AIDs which is known as HIV. HIV was first discovered in 1981. One in every six people are infected with HIV. The acronym HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. Unlike most viruses, HIV is one that your body can never nor will ever get rid of. So, once you have HIV you will have it for the rest of your life. The early stages of HIV have several symptoms such as mouth sores, muscles aches, sore throat, fever, chills, and multiple other symptoms. These symptoms can last anywhere from a day to several weeks at a time. However, since …show more content…
There are many different symptoms of aids. More common symptoms are pain in the stomach, pain when swallowing, fatigue, fever, sweating, loss of appetite, unintentional weight loss, oral thrush, pneumonia, and swolleness/soreness of the groin. These symptoms are commonly associated with other diseases. So, the only way to be completely sure you do or do not have the virus is to get tested. One way to be tested for aids is to test the person 's blood or saliva for antibodies against the virus. However, you could be positive and the test could come up negative because it takes up to 12 weeks for your body to develop the antibodies. Clearly, a virus in which lowers the body 's immune response will have some complications. There are numerous amounts of infections or malignant diseases you could acquire due to aids, but I will name the more common types of infections or diseases. In no order, tuberculosis which is an opportunistic infection, cytomegalovirus which is simply herpes passed on through bodily fluids, cryptococcal meningitis, toxoplasmosis if the person is or has been exposed to any cats or cat feces, and candidiasis. Each of these have the possibility to cause death amongst the affected person. There are also two common cancers associated with aids, which are lymphoma and kaposi 's sarcoma. Lymphoma is cancer of the white blood cells and usually starts in the lymph nodes then could …show more content…
The group started performing in 1986. There are multiple conspiracy theories behind the death of the young man, but he was pronounced dead on March 26th, 1995. However, he only knew for ten short days that he had AIDs before he passed. Not only had he contracted the virus, through what some suspect was drugs and others suspect was sexual relations, he also spread it to many women. It is unknown at the time how many women he contaminated, but his sexual relations resulted in 10 children. It is also unknown if any of his children have contracted the disease as well. There are many interviews of his son, known as “Lil Eazy-E”, or Earl Jr. He states how he remembers the two week period of when his father was in a comatose state. Eazy-E died at the young age of thirty years old. Not just Eazy-E and his family has been affected by this virus, but millions of people and their families have. Besides this famous case of AIDs, another well known story is Earvin ¨Magic¨ Johnson. Earvin made the announcement of his retirement from the Lakers basketball team in November of 1991. He and his wife, Cookie, made the announcement together in a room full of reporters. At this time, celebrities who had the virus did not make any form of public announcements about having HIV, especially none with as many fans as Earvin. He, willingly, stood in the room and explained that he had contracted