How long can you live with an Virus? What age is the most you can live?
350222
which virus - you'd have to be more clear
39507
We don't really use the term "full blown AIDS" anymore.  Most often we look at T-cell counts.  T-cells are in your blood.  They are part of the immune system.  They are what identify things that make you sick.  HIV attacks T-cells and eventually kills them all off.\n\nWe also look at something called a "viral load."  It simply tells how much of the virus is in your blood.\n\nThe lower your T-cells are, and the higher your viral load is - the sicker you may become.\n\nIf a person with AIDS takes their medications they can live a long and healthy life.  I have known people with less than 10 T-cells who have been relatively healthy for a few years.  There are medications that can prevent other types of infections that affect people with AIDS too.\n\nSo, how long can you live? No one really knows.  With medications, people with AIDS can live long and healthy lives.\n\nFor someone with a badly damaged immune system and not recieving medical care - a common cold or the flu can lead to other infections that eventually could kill the person.
202932
People can live for a long time with lymphoma, depending how aggressive their disease is.  It's not really "curable", I don't think, but think of it more like a chronic disease.  However, if it's extremely aggressive and resistent to treatment, it can be fatal quickly.\n\nTreatment is chemotherapy, usually once every three weeks for 6 cycles, then sometimes maintenance therapy.\n\nGood luck to your friend.
817756
Highly unlikely......it takes a certain amount of the virus to actually infect you.
1014480
Viruses enter your body from other bodily fluids, whether it be blood or saliva, excrement or vomit.  Viruses generally travel easier in the medium they affect, AIDS is blood-borne, and while it's possible a blood to blood transfer would infect you with a common cold or flu, it's generally spread by saliva. Generally viruses cannot survive for long outside of a host organism.\n\nYour body is under attack by viruses constantly, many times you will receive a virus and not even know because your body is able to fight it off before it can affect you. Besides the obvious, visible or physical symptoms of an infection, a doctor can test for anti-bodies to see if you've been infected. The main reason we give vaccinations is so your body can fight off a weakened or dead virus and learn to make the anti-bodies to defeat it for the next time you are infected by it. However some viruses can remain dormant for long periods of time and even tests cannot show their presence, since the viral load (amount of virus particles) is so low.  \n\nOn a side note, contrary to what was said above virus are NOT organisms. By the definitions of life it is not alive, technically it is an obligate intracellular parasite. This is for a few reasons, but the big ones are that they are not cellular based and they cannot reproduce (by themselves). They do share characteristics with living things, such as the use of DNA/RNA and the ability to evolve.
796473
It totally depends on how people get treated for it, though attitude definitely helps.  Those who fight with knowledge and are able to laugh through the hard times seem to survive more.  I've seen people with lymphomas who are still going strong after 5-10 years.
258727
What the hell are you all talking about, ofcourse viruses are living - and they do reproduce by replication within your body cells.\nViruses dont decay, they actually mutate, so if someone in your family has a cold, and you don't and you're like "hey i dont have your cold" - the chances are that you already acquired it some time before and your memory cells remember the virus and so fight it off. So the next cold you get, will be another mutated cold. Viruses can also lay dormant, like the tetanus virus, which lays dormant in soil - which is why you get a tetanus shot if you cut yourself.
1001913
Try to live my life to the fullest because I'll know that someday soon I won't be around much longer. I watched as my uncle slowly died from complications caused by AIDS. I was only 12, it was very hard on my family, especially my mom, because they were best friends. It's a terrible way to die.
149766
How about a more informative answer?\n\nFrom Wikipedia:\n\n\n\n\nHomo sapiens live on average 37 years in Zambia and on average 81 years in Japan. The oldest confirmed recorded age for any human is 122 years, though some people are reported to have lived longer. The following information is derived from the Encyclopedia Britannica, 1961:\n\nHumans by Era, Average Lifespan (in years)\n\n    * Neanderthal, 20\n    * Neolithic, 20\n    * Classical Greece, 28\n    * Classical Rome, 28\n    * Medieval England, 33\n    * End of 19th Century, 37\n    * Early 20th Century, 50\n    * Circa 1940, 65\n    * Current (in the Western world), 77-81\n\n\nCheck out the wiki article if you want more info.\n\nHope this helps! =)
463715
theorically, I will live about 97 years, a normal good-excercised person on a normal country, will live about 89 years.\n<I will skip the scientific explanation.>\n\nthe answer should be: bones and organs decompose, it is totally imposible (at least now until 1000 years) that a person lives that much, heart and other muscular organs get old, and wasted, think about it.\n\n<altough I do this for free, 10 points as best answer wouldnt be bad>
1124342
Depends on how bad the attack is, my grandad lived for another 13 yrs after his attack. It also depends on how strong your heart is too i spose.
278098
37\n\nhttp://www.tesarta.com/www/resources/library/lifespans.html
830719
HIV effects each and every person that has it different, if a person takes care of them self then it is possible that they will live a life time and never get AIDS it dose not always mean death.  I have been hiv+ for 13 years i am on a drug cocktail without the cocktail i would live for another 13 years with the cocktail i would say that old age would get me before the virus  would.
719909
The virus usually multiplies silently in the body for 30 to 50 days after infection. Once the fever appears, it often lasts for a week or two. If there are no complications, the major symptoms usually last for 2 to 4 weeks, and then gradually resolve. Some continue to have fatigue for months or even years after the infection.\n\nA long list of possible complications can lengthen mono. These include meningitis, encephalitis, anemia, hepatitis, pneumonia, Reye syndrome, parotitis, or the painful testicular swelling found in mumps.
915822
Viruses themselves are not alive. Most virologists consider them non-living, as they do not meet all the criteria of the generally accepted definition of life. They are similar to obligate intracellular parasites as they lack the means for self-reproduction outside a host cell, but unlike parasites, viruses are generally not considered to be true living organisms. Among other factors, viruses do not possess a cell membrane or metabolise on their own.\n\ncompter viruses are not alive either.
627823
You probably mean "why can't we kill viruses?" Right?\n\nThe problem is that viruses tend to live inside host cells. To destroy the virus you need to destroy the cell.  Viruses also modify cell receptors so they can't properly work, which limits the ability to find something that can both penetrate the cell and kill the virus without damaging the functions of the cell.
926442
Try looking on webmd.com or another medical site. I think they can live into their 50s but most don't get very old.