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Posts Tagged hiv virus
AIDS – What Symptoms Are Present In The Later Stage Of Infection?
As the HIV virus continues to multiply in the host’s body it destroys the person’s immunity completely and makes him prone to attacks by not only very serious debilitating diseases, but very mild infections as well.
The count of the helper T cells (CD4 lymphocytes), which are typically in the range of 600 to 1,000, drop below 200 after which the person begins to show other serious signs of the disease. With the person’s immunity system completely damaged, he becomes easily susceptible to opportunistic infections and may frequently experience the more serious symptoms of AIDS such as the following:
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The Origin of HIV and the Start of AIDS
Today all of us are aware of the terms HIV and AIDS. The disease has killed millions of people worldwide and it is estimated that 40 million people are HIV infected. We were unaware of the HIV and AIDS till early 1980. Nobody knows from where the virus came. It is all assumptions that scientists and researchers can make. Researchers have their view on the origin of HIV and start of AIDS. But how exactly one can state cannot be said. There are many theories about the origin of the HIV virus but none of them have been proved.
No record of HIV virus exists in history and it has been said that it started in central Africa and from there it started spreading slowly and slowly.
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