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Hiv attacks the body's immune system by destroying what kind of cells?
Once HIV enters the body's blood stream it immediatly starts attacking the body's CD4 cells or your helper t-cells. An average HIV Negative person has roughly around 1200 tcells per every milimeter of blood. How HIV works is that once it's in the blood stream, the HIV virus is a hundred times smaller than one tcell, and the HIV virus attaches itself to the CD4 cell and it sinks into the tcell and uses the cells RNA to copy the HIV virus up to a billion times in 24 hours. But once the HIV uses the tcells RNA the tcell then become paralyzed and dies, and after HIV and destroyed so many tcells that the numbers drop below 200 tcells per milimeter of blood, the body can not naturely fight off infection, and this stage is what you call full blown AIDS.
What are the events that happen when you get HIV?
HIV is a deadly virus.When HIV enters your body it attacks and destroyslymphocytes called HELPER T cells that make antibodies fight infections. And eventually the lymphocytes ( HELPER T) gets weaken and the person dies from HIV....
Disease targets helper T cells?
HIV
How is HIV inefection different from a cold virus infection?
HIV attacks the helper T cells
What cells are most likely to be attacked by HIV?
helper tHuman Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) attacks the CD4+T cells, which are basically your immune system. which prevent you from infectionsHIV or Human immunodeficiency virus does not really attack anything but aids which is the disease it leads to does. Aids attacks the immune system which causes major problems for your body. People who are HIV positive may carry the disease for years before noticing anything.
What does HIV most effect?
HIV most affects our immune system especially our T helper cells.
Is HIV bacterial?
No HIV is not bacteria or any other organism. HIV is a retrovirus. It infects the T helper cells of human, cause AIDS disease.No, it is a virus.No, it is not a virus.
Why are other cells not targeted by the HIV virus?
HIV can only bind with the CD4 located on Helper T cells.
Can HIV attach itself to a muscle cell or a skin cell?
No, HIV cannot attach itself to a muscle or a skin cell because the antigens on the HIV membrane are not complementary to their binding sites. However, HIV can attach itself to a helper T cell because the antigens on the HIV membrane are complementary to the binding sites of the helper T cells.
How HIV increases the danger of secondary 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.
HIV weakens the immune system by killing what?
c. helper T cells.
HIV causes AIDS by attacking and destroying?
Helper T cells :b
