A mysterious epidemic spread throughout the country in a matter of years. A virus unknown to mankind, leaving a brutal vestige, killing millions of people. Researchers at first were not aware of the dangers this virus had on the people of the world. The virus known as AIDS, has become the deadliest virus in the world. Many people do not understand or know what the AIDS virus is. Understanding, learning, and talking about AIDS gives people knowledge of what the virus is and does. "AIDS is the most serious communicable disease epidemic in contemporary times, and the effort to reduce its spread is the U.S. government's top health priority", stated Harlon L. Dalton in his book AIDS And The Law.
             AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Acquired meaning something one can get or obtain. Immune meaning safe or protected. Deficiency meaning a lack or shortage of something, and Syndrome meaning a group of symptoms or problems. In other words, a disease one can contract that attacks the immune system. As Hancock and Carim stated in Aids the Deadly Epidemic,
             " AIDS is a multiple disease caused by a particular kind of virus that works in two main ways. The virus undermines, on the one hand, the body's in-built defences against alien organisms, rendering it vulnerable to a wide range of infections, and, on the other hand, it attacks cells of the central nervous system and of the brain." (Hancock and Carim 55)
             AIDS is virtually 100 percent fatal stated Rinear in his book, The Sexually Transmitted Diseases. In The Essential Aids Fact Book,
             "Aids is caused by a virus that has been known by several
             names: HTLV-III, LAV, and ARV. We will refer to the
             virus by its current scientific designation: HIV, which stands
             for Human Immunodeficiency Virus." (Douglas and Pinsky 13)
             HIV is the first stage of the AIDS virus. HIV and AIDS are two very different viruses. Bot...