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AIDS

24/01/09

AIDS Information


1. What is AIDS?

Beginning of the 80s were the first cases of a new, fatal disease described for the first gave no explanation. This disease, it was found after a short time to research, brings a disastrous weakening of the body’s own immune system, the immune system, with it: The man is helpless against pathogens, bacteria or viruses that a healthy person with a healthy immune system easily can defend. They called this disease: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, abbreviated: AIDS. AIDS has in fact not a single disease, but can be more than 20 diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, tumors, etc., fatal act. The pathogen that causes AIDS, found the mid-80s, American and French immunologists. It is a virus, which they called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). After an infection with the virus, the body known as antibodies against the virus, he succeeded but not to destroy the virus.

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