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Today our topic isWhat is AIDS?
AIDS Stand for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
AIDS caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which destroys a subgroup of lymphocytes and monocytes, resulting in suppression of the immune system. The virus enters the host cell and causes a mutation of its DNA so that the host cell becomes an infective agent (known as a provirus).Sign and symptoms include
- fever
- Malaise
- painful throat
- swollen lymph node and
- itching muscle in the initial period following infection.
After a variable period of latency 1 to 15 years weight loss night, sweats long-lasting fever diarrhea after NZ itself which event progressive to the questions of a major opportunistic infections and cancer such as pneumonia or Kaposi sarcoma ( a malignant skin tumor appearing as a purple to dark brown plaques).
Antiretroviral drugs are used to prolong the lives of infected individual although there is no cure or vaccine for this disease.
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