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AIDS damages the immune system leaving those infected susceptible to infection. Therefore, older adults with weaker immune system are more susceptible to HIV/AIDS. Older adults are less likely to practice safe sex because of the belief that sexually transmitted diseases do not happen in old age. Diagnosis can take longer because the symptoms of AIDS such as weakness, weight loss, fatigue, infections and night sweats are associated with aging (Saxton, Etten, & Perkins, 2015). This is an area…

Blood is everywhere, in everyone, in all living animals. The type of blood and what makes it look how it does is all based on its composition. The uses of it are vital to all animals survival as it is the key component to living. Unknown to most, but the blood's composition must be kept at near perfect balance at all time for it to perform all its functions. Blood is a crucial part of an animal's existence. Without it, it could not survive. Blood has numerous types as well as appearances, and…

Discussing with your partner about being tested for STD’s can be an uncomfortable and awkward conversation, but it is the best scenario for your sexual experience to know exactly what you are getting into and can contract by being a participant. Below I will discuss a conversation about tested. It seems that it is easier to just be sexually active than to be tested or have the conversation. Being open and receptive is the best way to go about this conversation not taking NO for an answer. Me:…

IM - fullertonanimal.com - Content - Heartworm FAQ Your Baltimore Veterinarian Answers Most Common Heartworm FAQ’s Heartworm is one of the most dangerous parasites that can infect your pet. Heartworm disease is transmitted to animals by mosquitoes. Is a serious and potentially life-threatening disease that primarily affects dogs, but cats and other household pets are also at risk. How Can My Pet Get Heartworm? Heartworms are only transmitted animal to animal through mosquitoes. When an…

Aids is an illness that has affected more than 70 million and has killed about 35 million people globally. 95% of the people with aids live in developing countries. The ages between 19-40 years of age are mainly infected with this disease. The color of the ribbon for aids is red. Aids is a disease that makes your immune system weak. It destroys a specific type of cell that is important to your immune system called CD4. CD4 cells are a type of white blood cell. CD4 cells trigger the body's…

million of Brazilians are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The National Program for the Transmissible Diseases/AIDS reported that 27 million Brazilians are at high risk, 36 million are considered to be at medium risk, and 7.5 million could be AIDS victims in the next decade. Pedro Chequer, a Health Ministry official said that in Brazil, the Health Ministry is distributing free medicine, passing out condoms, and bringing AIDS awareness campaigns in the areas where the disease is most…

tested positive for the HIV/AIDS virus. Throughout the article Greene, reflects on how most children who have a positive HIV/AID result will not be adopted into the United States due to families not “wanting” a child with a deathly disease and in contrary the US should extend their arms to these children the most. Out of the positive babies in African orphanages, 75% of them will pass away before age two where as babies in the United States who have received successful HIV/AIDS treatment are…

In Tony Kushner Angels in America, it speaks to a time in our nation's history, in particular, the early 80s, through the year 2000, where AIDS had affected primarily the gay community. No one knew anything about AIDS, or why it seemed to plague the homosexual community. Originally, the virus was labeled as a gay disease/cancer. One can argue that perhaps a certain segment of the homosexual population was not practicing safe sex. In addition, the virus also affected bisexual men, heterosexuals,…

and that potentially another mechanism had to be involved in the development of the disease beside the presence or absence of parasite. Moving beyond my current findings, the future destination of my work is to arrive at a heat map that would depict potential evolutionary patterns between host and parasite. This research accentuated my interest in infectious disease and my aptitude to conduct research from hypothesis development to manuscript write…

The AIDS Outbreak Over the last several decades, people have witnessed millions of people especially homosexual died from AIDS. Doctor Don Francis, who worked as epidemiologists at the CDC during 1993 and the exact time of AIDS outbreak in the United States, made a claim, “This may be the first epidemic in history”. However, this claim did not make the people especially homosexual and hatians to be aware and more careful about their health. They believed that this disease named AIDs or HIV…