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A disease that involves a defect in the cell-mediated immunity system?
AIDS- acquired immune deficiency syndrome
What is an immunity disease?
AIDS, HIV, and Epstein-Barr disease are all forms of auto-immune disease. There are others.
What is the immunity system made up of?
the lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, also the circulatory system aids in immunity.
Why do AIDS victims die from different kinds of infection rather than from a single aids disease?
The disease lowers their immunity to fight off infection.
What is a disease of the immune system?
AIDS
Is the curing of AIDS possible by vaccination if not why?
Vaccination does not cure. It is a way to prevent disease by building immunity. It is hard to come up with a vaccine for AIDS because it affects the immune system itself, which is what vaccines affect. Presently, there is no vaccine and no cure for AIDS. The available treatments can slow the progress of disease, but do not eliminate it.
What type of disease is AIDS considered?
The disease AIDS is currently considered a pandemic. It classifies as this due to it being a problem in a large area of the world and it's constant spreading.
Why is AIDS considered an pandemic?
AIDS is a problem because it damages your immune system and your immune system gets weaker for fitting the disease.
Is aids a disease in the digestive system?
No. AIDS is not so much a disease as it is a condition. AIDS is a diagnosis received by a medical provider when a person is HIV positive and their immune system has reached a certain level of deficiency.
Can aids affect the immune system?
AIDS is an autoimmune disease; it destroys the immune system. So, yes, it affects the immune system.
What does it mean when hiv turns into aids?
You don't catch AIDS, you catch the HIV virus. HIV is a virus that attacks a certain very important type of immune system cells. After it invades these immunity support cells it spreads through them. As the number of these cells dwindles your immune system becomes less and less effective at defending against diseases. When the number of these immunity helping cells falls below a certain number the person is defined to have AIDS. So AIDS is not a disease, it is an "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome" resulting from the loss of these immunity cells. People do not die of AIDS, instead their body becomes incapable of defending against common diseases such that even a common cold can kill them.
Why is AIDS considered a condition and not a disease?
AIDS is more accurately called a syndrome. It is a condition and a disease, but not in the usual sense because a disease usually has one cause. AIDS is more of a complex situation as a result of the disease of having HIV infection.
