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HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes a person to develop the disease known as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.) HIV is transmitted through direct contact with infected blood, semen, vaginal fluid or breast milk.
When a person is infected with HIV, the virus attacks cells that are associated with immune function. Over the course of time, if left untreated, the virus can cause the individual to have increased difficulty fighting infections and places them at higher risk for opportunistic infections which can be deadly.
There are many treatment options available to those who are infected with HIV however. These treatments help to increase immune function and decrease the amount of virus in a person's system. There is currently no cure for infection.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe HIV virus kills T-cells in a person's blood.
An HIV+ person develops AIDS when their t-cell count is below 200 per micro-liter of blood. At this point the body becomes extremely susceptible to developing opportunistic infections that can lead to death. Examples of these infections are types of pneumonia and cancers that develop in immune-compromised individuals.
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∙ 13y agoThe HIV virus affects the body by attacking certain white blood cells that are part of your immune system. This will cause the destruction of those cells. Without these cells, called CD4+ or T-helper cells, the body is unable to fight off infections.
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∙ 14y agoAIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) doesn't do anything to the body. AIDS is a diagnosis given to someone who is HIV+ after they have reached a low state of immune function.
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes someone to develop AIDS. HIV attacks the part of the body that fights disease, white blood cells.
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How does aids enter the human body?
if three person who are not HIV positive/AIDS have sexual relation ship with each other, any possibility of HIV/ AIds?
What type of virus is AIDS and HIV?
aids is an hiv: human immunodeficiency virus. and hiv is an std.
What is human immunodeficiency infection?
HIV. Is a virus. Such as AIDS. If you are HIV positave you may get AIDS. Which happens when one of the four body fluids enter one of the four body openings. It's a disease.
What virus causes AIDS?
The virus that causes AIDS is HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus) HIV infects and affects the body's key component of immunity which is the T-cell This HIV enters the host T-cell and replicates its RNA( Ribonucleic acid ) into the body's DNA( Deoxyribonucleic acid) leading to the body to produce more HIV virus cell as the T-cell virus replicates and the HIV virus renders the T-cell useless as they try to fight of diseases or even the common flu HIV progresses to AIDS when the T-cell count in the body drops below 200 or any one of the 26 opportunistic conditions which does not occur in healthy people
What is the full name of the pathogen that causes aids?
AIDS is caused by a virus called HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
The virus that causes aids is?
The HIV virus causes AIDS. HIV stand for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
What is the full meaning of HIV/AIDS?
HIV- Human immunodeficiency virus AIDS- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
How can HIV transform in to AIDS?
aids stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome which is a disease of the body's immune system's is caused by a virus named the human immunodeficiency virus commonly known as HIV.
What parts of the body does AIDS effect?
AIDS doesnt affect a specific part of the body. AIDS is a diagnosis given to an HIV+ person who exhibits qualifying clinical criteria. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS and attacks cells associated with immune function, broadly speaking, white blood cells.
Can you contract aids from a piece of cheese?
No. AIDS is transmitted by human body fluids, such as blood, semen, etc.
What is The name of the pathogenic organism that causes aids?
HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus *HIV is not a pathogenic organism, but a virus. To be an organism it must be able to replicate on its own, which it cannot. It needs a host to do so.
What diseases does HIV cause?
HIV fully known as a human immunodeficiency virus is a retrovirus which causes a disease called AIDS fully known as an acquired immune deficiency syndrome; a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and increasing recurrence of them.
