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First people catch the HIV virus. Most people do not feel anything or have anything after they catch that particular virus. It takes about six months before it shows up on a blood test. After a few years a person starts getting thinner and thinner. A person needs to maintain his or her weight. A person starts getting infections more often. It is harder and harder to get over infections. If there is any possibility that anyone in the vicinity has tuberculosis, then instead of getting a skin test, a person with HIV will need an X-Ray to diagnosis it. The constant sickness sets in and the disease becomes AIDS. Pneumonia comes. Cancer comes. Then comes death.

All this comes as a result of a rather poorly understood breakdown of the victim's immune system. At this time, it's irreversable but can be held off for a very long time if caught early on in it's cycle.

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