AIDS is the acronym used for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is
a disease transmitted through the blood. It is transmitted from person to
person through sexual intercourse, blood transfusions, IV drug users, and
from mothers to babies during birth. AIDS is a disease which breaks down
the human immune system causing the body to become very open to to
infection. The disease is brought about by the HIV-1 virus. HIV-1( Human
Immune deficiency Virus) can remain dormant for years and then begins to
attack the bodies T- cells and white cells which help fight off infection.
Full-blown AIDS occurs when a person is in the last stages of his or her
battle for life. It is a fatal disease not because of the disease itself but
because of the fact that other infections attack the body and it has no way
to recover from it. Full-blown AIDS is the stage of a person's life when
their immune system has been completely destroyed. A person does not
usually have any symptoms of the disease. That is that there are no real
hints that a person is infected. There is no certain look to a person who is
HIV-1 positive. They could be the person who lives next door or a complete
stranger that is seen passing by one the street. The patient may feel tired,
nauseous, feverish, and have a loss of appetite or weight. These are also
indications of many other diseases. This is why most people only find out
that they are positive after a casual blood test. Blood tests are given to
patients and the virus can be detected in the bloodstream. False positives
and negatives can also occur. For this reason it is recommended that a
person be tested more that once over a period of about a year.
As of today there is no cure for AIDS and HIV-1 because of a few
reasons. One is that it is such a new disease. The United States is in the
middle of a widespread epidemic of a killer virus that was only discovered
about sixteen yea...