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Why do people with AIDS often die of other cause?
weakened immune system
Why people with AIDS often develop many other infectious disease?
HIV/AIDS is a disease that affects the immune system and because these people have weak immune systems, they often get sick.
What fungal disease causes pneumonia in people with AIDS?
Pneumocystis jirovecii causes pneumonia in people with AIDS. This pathogen was formerly known as Pneumocystic carinii.
People with AIDS are unable to fight multiple infections because the virus that causes AIDS?
Weakens their immune systems
One of the distinguishing characteristics between HIV and AIDS is?
HIV is a virus. AIDS is a diagnosis. HIV is contagious and causes a person to develop AIDS. AIDS is not contagious and only occurs in people who are HIV+.
What is the the virus that causes AIDS?
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) causes AIDS.
Why is AIDS different from other diseases?
The virus that causes AIDS (HIV) is not the organism that causes the symptoms of AIDS, instead HIV destroys a significant part of the immune system leaving the body open to uncontrolled infections by many other organisms (e.g. bacteria, fungi) and to certain cancers (e.g. Kaposi's Sarcoma) which produce the symptoms of AIDS.
Can some please explain how is HIV different from AIDS?
HIV is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus which attacks human cell and can make people susceptible to incur various diseases and causes AIDS. On the other hand AIDS is the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome which is the last stage of the HIV infection.
Does HIV have to cause AIDS?
By gradually destroying a person's immune system.HIV causes aids by destroying the immune system. It leaves your body defenceless, you catch diseases easily and can die from one illness or the other.
What is hiv or human immunodeficiency disease?
It is a disease that causes aids. it kills cells and causes other life threatening diseases called opportunistic infections because of bacteria that doesn't make healthy people sick
What is the difference between having HIV and Aids?
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Hence, HIV in the virus and AIDS is the disease that results from the virus.
Does AIDS cause HIV or is it the other way around?
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a diagnosis and not a disease. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes someone to develop AIDS.
