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Hiv Stands For Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This Is A

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HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. This is a sexually transmitted disease that will eventually morph itself into a disease known as AIDS, which stands for acquired immunodeficiency. HIV breaks down the immune system where it becomes extremely difficult to fight diseases that attack the body. Though HIV is most commonly transferred sexually, other way like through contact with infected blood, or from a mother to a baby through child birth, and if that doesn’t do it then the person who is infected could infect the child through breast feeding. AIDS is known as a disease where there is an extremely lessen amount of the body’s cellular immunity cells. This causes danger of being infected, by any kind of disease, since the immune …show more content…

As the disease becomes more severe and the virus persistently destroys the immune system, this is known as early HIV infection. With the virus becoming more intense symptoms may vary from fatigue, once again swollen lymph nodes, diarrhea, weight loss, fever, oral yeast infection, and even shingles. With no treatment of the HIV infection, this virus will become AIDS within ten years. With AIDS present the immune system has been extremely damaged and weakened, like those common illnesses such as the flu would be extremely more dangerous because the immune system is so broken down. The sign and symptoms of this final phase of HIV is soaking night sweats, persistent fever, bad diarrhea, rash or bumps, odd white spots or uncomfortable ulcers on the tongue or even around the mouth, weight loss, and random persistent fatigue. Diagnosis for HIV usually consist of a blood test. These test look for antibodies to the virus that would be present in an infected person. There is no cure for HIV or AIDS but there is various medications that can slow the effects or even block some on the effects. Most medications will be used in a combination to make sure no one strand gets through and makes everything worse. Though this disease is incurable, it takes a long while for HIV to become AIDS, if catched before it is really bad. With the proper medication AIDS can be delayed for almost ten years, though eventually it is inevitable that HIV will morph into AIDS, and because there is no

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