Human Immunodefiency Virus known as HIV is a very serious disease. HIV is passed through blood and excahnge of body fluids. HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS. HIV attacks the immune system which causes a person to have a weak immune system. However, it has been found that some carriers of the disease do not develope AIDS (Roehr). AIDS is when the disease is full blown. According to Roehr, this unusal case of some people not developing AIDS can lead to some very important discoveries of figuring out a way to treat HIV. At this point there is no cure of this disease. There are lot of people out there that does not know they have the disease (CDC). HIV does not usually have symptoms till later on when it begins to progress; the only way to find out is by getting tested (CDC). In 1996 the number of AIDS cases began to drop due to new drugs that can help to suppress the progress (CDC).
Citations
CDC: HIV/AIDS-Basic Information http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/basic/index.htm#symptoms
Reserachers Try to Solve the Mystery of HIV Carriers Who Don't Contract AIDS http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hiv-aids-controllers
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