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Is are caused by which attacks the immune system so that the infected person is weakened and cannot fight off common infections?
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Aids; hiv.
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What is the Difference between infections and non-infections diseases?
Infectious diseases are diseases that others can get from you either by touching the infected area, breathing the infected air, or touching items that you or the infected area have touched. Noninfectious diseases mean others cannot get the disease from you in any manner.
Why do people with AIDS fall victim to opportunistic infections?
HIV invades helper T cells, which then begin to produce HIV soon after their infected. As helper T cells die, the immune system gradually weakens and becomes overwhelmed by pathogens that it would normally detect and destroy.
Viral infections cannot be treated by?
Antibiotics
What is a floppy heart?
It is a form of cardiomyopathy (heart muscle disease) in which the heart is weakened, dilated and cannot adequately pump the blood through the body (CBC health news). It is more common in men than women. Two possible causes are chemotherapy and viral infections.
Can you use amoxicillin for bacterial infections?
Yes, they can cure bacterial infections but they cannot cure viruses. :)
Horses that were born with the SCID virus have what?
Foals with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) are born with severely weakened immune systems. SCID is an autosomal recessive inherited condition identified in Arabian and part-Arabian horses. Affected foals are highly susceptible to infections from which they cannot recover. Answer From: BlueHorse211
Can you get infected with HIV if you smoked marijuana with someones HIV infected urine?
Not sure if I understand your question. But, the answer is no you cannot get HIV from smoking anything.
Can a cat give humans tapeworms?
not unless the human is infected the same way as the cat, by consuming an infected flea. otherwise, no they cannot
Why can traditional network security devices not be used to block web application attacks?
web application attacks use Web Browsers that cannot be controlled on a local computer
Is there a strong enough concentration of HIV to get infected if the blood cannot be seen?
Yes.
If an antivirus program cannot remove an infection it often?
Quarantines the infected file
The bacterial disease that cannot be spread by infected people who do not have active disease is?
tuberculosis
