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This 3 page paper provides some biological information about AIDS along with an overview of the disease. HIV is examined and how it progresses to full blown AIDS is explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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reports: " Because infectious diseases were no longer the major killers they had been even a few decades earlier, doctors had become vastly overconfident" (p.26). They paid little attention to
it until it began to become widespread. Although people heard it could only be transmitted through sexual relations, they wondered whether one could get AIDS from a swimming pool or
a toilet seat. While they kept away from people with the disease, as time went on, information surfaced to quell those fears. Or, at least, after time had passed, it
could be seen that mass epidemics were not breaking out and that when someone contracted the AIDS virus, it could be traced to either a blood transfusion, a sexual partner,
intravenous drug use or another known cause, as opposed to it being a mystery. The fact that one knows where they acquire the disease is comforting as it is reasoned
that if one is monogamous or celibate, they are not in a high risk group. At the beginning, there was little being done about AIDS. In fact, the musical Rent
is in part based on the fact that the society shunned people with the disease. What is AIDS exactly? The acronym stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. First, it
should be said that IDS or Immune Deficiency Syndrome is something that is caused by HIV, which is the Human Immunodeficiency Virus ("What is AIDS," 2007). Once infected with HIV,
the body reacts and tries to fight the infection ("What is AIDS," 2007). This is typical as the body will react to any infection is such a manner. Antibodies are
made and in fact, when tested for HIV, the test tries to isolate these antibodies ("What is AIDS," 2007). When someone is said to be HIV positive, all it means
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