Immunodeficiency

Katherine Gapinski Online Health AIDS in Africa is important and has to do with the US because America is growing partners with them. AIDS is an HIV infection. AIDS is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and often fatal disease of the immune system. AIDS are the leading killer in Africa. Lots of people have different views on the topic of AIDS because the US is giving Africa tons of money to stop the spread and why America should be caring about it. Some people think America shouldn't be…

Both types of HIV, type 1 and 2, are believed to have been transmitted to humans from primates in the West-central Africa region early in the 20th century. It seems that HIV-1 originated from southern Cameroon through the emergence of a simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, that infects wild chimpanzees. On the other hand, the closest relative of HIV-2 is a different viral strain of SIV that infects the sooty mangabey, an Old World monkey native to forests in West Africa coastal regions. HIV…

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Edgardo Felix English 105 September 28, 2015 Ms. Dudley The Hot Zone Review “In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of the concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan and the United States, perhaps the biosphere does not like the idea of five billion humans” (Preston 406). Richard Preston addresses that the Earth is tired of the…

AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa AIDS is one of the most devastating diseases that mankind is ever infected with. Unlike cancer and other deadly diseases which could be referred to as diseases of old people, AIDS is not only deadly but also destroys the society of the infected people as this disease is more prevalent with the youth. No one knows for certain when and how the disease originated but there are many hypothesis on how it originated, one of them is that the disease was transmitted to human…

affect the amount of medical care a person receives, the living conditions they find themselves in and the obstacles that they need to face. HIV originated in non-human primates in Africa and later mutated to infect humans. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is a retrovirus that infects the cells of the immune system (HIV/AIDS). When someone contracts HIV their immune system is completely destroyed. Illnesses that were nothing to worry about before, are now extremely deadly, for…

the disease. HIV/AIDS is made up of two acronyms. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. As the name suggests, it is a virus which attacks blood cells killing the immune system and rendering the body susceptible to infections. Unlike most viruses, the body is unable to get rid of the HIV virus and once acquired the host patient cannot get rid of it for life. AIDS, on the other hand, stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and…

cell’s machinery to carry out its own life processes to help it multiply and replicate. The infected cell will produce viral particles instead of the usual products. One of the most recognized and studied is the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that leads acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).…

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HIV/AIDS in Older Adults HIV is the abbreviation for Human immunodeficiency virus. HIV is an enveloped retrovirus which interferes with your body 's ability to fight the organisms by damaging your immune system. HIV is a sexually transmitted infection. It can also be spread by contact with infected blood, from mother to child during pregnancy or childbirth, breast-feeding and so on. HIV affects the immune system, especially CD4 cells, or T cells. Over time, HIV destroys immune system; the body…