Aids: the Silent Killer

AIDS The Silent killer Introduction AIDS is one of the most ordinaryly known fireually transmitted diseases. The last stages of human immunodeficiency virus, mankind Immunodeficiency Virus, are what we know as AIDS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. human immunodeficiency virus is similar to other vir usages like the flu or common cold except the human resistive system female genitalianot destroy the virus. The virus can hide in the cells of the em organic structure for long periods of time and attacks important parts of the immune system like T-cells or CD4 cells.Once HIV destroys a lot of CD4 cells the human body can no longer fight against infections and diseases. AIDS is diagnosed when the body cannot fight against disease and the patient has one or more specific opportunistic infections (OIs), different types of cancer, or an super low number of CD4 cells. HIV lives in specific human blood and other body fluids. If those fluids enter the human blood stream then it is in fected with HIV. Blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, look milk, vaginal fluids, and rectal mucous contain high levels of HIV.Waste products like feces, nasal fluid, saliva, sweat, tears, urine, and vomit contain HIV but not adequate to infect someone unless blood is mixed with the waste products and there is direct contact with them. plurality can get HIV from anyone who is HIV positive or infected with the disease. 7 HIV affects most plenty from having sexual intercourse with an HIV positive person, sharing a needle with someone who is infected, drinking the breast milk of a HIV positive woman, or being birthed from a HIV positive woman. People used to get AIDs from injected blood donors, but now donated blood is screened for HIV. 9 Oral sex is another way people can get AIDs, but only if there are extend sores in your mouth or bleeding gums. 10 Discussion HIV/AIDs did not engender about until the early 1980s. The United States was the first country to notice this different viru s among homosexual males. 11 No one had any clue what this new virus was, it must have been terrifying attempting to get by an unknown disease considering you would not know how to protect yourself from the disease as well.In 1982, scientists discovered that AIDS form a sexually transmitted disease. Not until 1984 did researchers conclude that AIDS is caused by HIV. 12 Although HIV has fabricate somewhat maintainable, during the early age of the AIDs virus a vaccine seemed impossible, and with almost 30 years since the virus first budded its head there is still no vaccine. 13 As I give tongue to earlier HIV is a virus, specifically a retrovirus. Retroviruses contain RNA for their genetic material, but erstwhile someone is infected the virus uses an enzyme called transcriptase to turn RNA into DNA. 4 The virus then continues to iterate itself.15 People commonly do not realize they have HIV because it is a lentivirus and there is usually a long period of time between the time of infection and the sign of serious symptoms. 16 Animals have similar versions of HIV that have made good but not perfect models of how HIV works. 17 HIV replicates at impeccable speeds creating billions of new HIV viruses to infect the body every day. 18 The virus is able to mutate and evolve which makes it that much harder to defeat the virus. 9 The CD4 cells and T cells are done for(p) daily by HIV which eventually causes the immune system to regenerate or defeat infections. 20 HIV is able to hide in the cytoplasm of the cell that it infects or makes its way into the cells chromosomes. 21 The virus does this to hide from the immune system so it will not be destroyed. 22 Some drugs have been found to suppress HIV but cannot get rid of it because of HIVs ability to hide in other cells. 23 Conclusion There is currently no mend for AIDS, but there are treatments available to prolong an HIV/AIDS patient from becoming extremely ill.The main treatment for HIV or AIDS is the antiretro viral drug. 24 This drug needs to be interpreted daily in order to keep HIV levels low in the body. 25 Patients usually use combination therapy, taking two or more antiretroviral drugs, so that HIV does not become immune to the drug. 26 AIDS is a very deadly syndrome derived from an evil virus. HIV/AIDS is a healthy silent killer. Everyone should be tested for HIV because that is the only way to find out if you have the virus.