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Cd 4 Cells Reverse Transcriptase
1,846 wordsThe content of this paper is whether or not mutations undergone by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and allow it to survive in the immune system. The cost of treating all persons with AIDS in 1993 in the United States was $ 7. 8 billion, and it is estimated that 20, 000 new cases of AIDS are reported every 3 months to the CDC. The question dealing with how HIV survives in the immune system is important, not only in the search for a cure for the virus and its inescapable syndrome, AIDS (Acquired ...
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Full Blown Aids Human Immunodeficiency Virus
1,579 wordsHIV and AIDS The first case of AIDS was identified in New York in 1979. The cause of the disease, a retro virus now called Human Immunodeficiency Virus, was identified in 1983 - 84 by scientists working at the National Cancer Institute in the United States and the Pasteur Institute in France. These workers also developed tests for AIDS, enabling researchers to follow the transmission of the virus and to study the origin and mechanism of the disease. Close relatives of the AIDS virus infect some ...
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Virus That Causes Saharan Africa
571 wordsENEVA, Nov. 24 An estimated 5. 3 million people, including 600, 000 children under age 15, became infected with the virus that causes AIDS this year, the World Health Organization said today. For the first time the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa stabilized, but that was offset by increases in morbidity (the rate the disease was contracted) and deaths in the region. An estimated 3. 8 million people in the region were newly infected this year with H. I. V. , the virus that causes A...
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Does Hiv Cause Aids The Controversy
1,765 words"Science is nothing but perception" -- -Plato -- - In the first part of my discussion on the HIV/AIDS controversy, I discussed some of the reasons some people were unwilling to believe that HIV causes AIDS. I did not focus on the scientific community nor did I explain how the science handles data that conflicts with accepted scientific theory. This essay will explore these themes. It will concentrate on the scientific establishment and how it formulates its theories and the HIV/AIDS controversy ...
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Does Hiv Cause Aids The Controversy
1,631 words... his that HIV is a passenger virus provides a consistent explanation for the unpredictable time interval between HIV infection and AIDS. " (Duesberg and Bialy, p. 5) In conclusion, the article claims that the report was selective. They point out variety of issues which questions the validity the paper. (The article is included with this essay and is worth a read. ) At the end of the article Duesberg and Bialy state with respect to the report, "It seems to us that the 'new developments' of Wei...
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Infected With Aids Find A Cure
1,572 wordsThe Black Death (Bubonic Plague) began in Central Asia in the 14 th century in the mid- 1300 's. It was said to have lasted over 400 years. Its symptoms were the swelling of the armpits and other areas of the body, mostly the groin and the neck, another symptom would be rings around your cheeks, the main symptom was black patches around the skin caused by bleeding around the buboes (swollen lymph glands). About one fourth of Europe died within a few years after the Plague was introduced to Europ...
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Cd 4 Cells
2,076 wordsHuman Immunodeficiency Virus The topic of this paper is the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, and whether or not mutations undergone by the virus allow it to survive in the immune system. The cost of treating all persons with AIDS in 1993 in the United States was $ 7. 8 billion, and it is estimated that 20, 000 new cases of AIDS are reported every 3 months to the CDC. This question dealing with how HIV survives in the immune system is of critical importance, not only in the search for a cure fo...
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Studies Have Shown Infected With Hiv
1,231 wordsHIV and AIDS Introduction HIV, which stands for human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus that causes AIDS. This virus can be passed from one another through blood to blood and sexual contact. A person with HIV has an incredibly weak immune system, causing them to contract one of numerous disease that causes AIDS, which stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Causes Someone cannot get AIDS. They can only get the HIV virus. HIV is spread through blood, semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk, ...
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Hiv Infected Women Leading Cause Of Death
1,026 wordsHIV/AIDS is an epidemic that effects both men and women of all ages. It has an impact on many peoples lives either by themselves being infected, knowing someone who is infected, or being a health care worker. HIV is a virus that attacks the bodys immune system. It also effects the blood cells (lymphocytes) and cells of the organs (bone marrow, spleen, liver, and lymph glands). It effects the lungs, central nervous system and gastrointestinal system. People begin with having the HIV virus. An HIV...
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