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The difference between HIV and AIDS is that HIV is the virus that causes the disease AIDS. You can be a carrier of the HIV virus and not contract the disease but you can infect others.
HIV is a virus and sarcoidosis seems to be an autoimmune disease.HIV is a virus and sarcoidosis seems to be an autoimmune disease.
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Hence, HIV in the virus and AIDS is the disease that results from the virus.
Pathogen is the agent or the culprit that causes a disease while the disease is the end result of what a pathogen did. Example: HIV virus is the pathogen while AIDS is the disease state that can result from high HIV viral load.
A mouth disease can't cause HIV.
HIV does not refer to a disease, but a virus that in-turn causes the disease AIDS. HIV is transmissible via the blood and saliva.
The autoimmune disease caused by the HIV virus is AIDS.
In essence it is both; the HIV infection occurs which leads to the disease AIDS.
HIV is a virus; AIDS is a disease.
Lupus has nothing to do with HIV AIDS. Lupus is an autoimmune disease. HIV AIDS is an immunodeficienty disease transmitted by a virus.
Thabo Mbeki (1942-) questioned the link between HIV and AIDS. Eventhough his question was purely political and sociological, majority of South Africans and the outisde world took it literally.
A disease