Aids Kills millions of people, but why do we worry more about the flu?
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flu can kill quicker.
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Having AIDS is hugely problematic.  It is a fatal illness.  Eventually a person with AIDS will die.  It may take 10 years, 15 years, but they will get very sick and it's only a matter of time.\n\nIt's great to have AIDS and still love LIFE, but I think it's a little strange to love having the illness itself.
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AIDS is thought to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the 20th century. It got into humans by a similar route as some classic Old World infectious diseases. The ancient Old World was the incubator of many diseases like smallpox because it had large human populations in close association with large animal populations, especially those that lived in herds. AIDS followed a similar path.\n\nThe requirements were:\n\na large human population, \na large nearby population of a host animal, \na pathogen that eventually mutates to spread from animal to human, \ninteraction between the species to transmit enough of it to humans to establish a human foothold, which may take millions of individual exposures, \na mutation of same pathogen that can spread from human to human, \nsome method that allows the pathogen to disperse widely so it does not "burn out" in a local population of humans. \nSuch requirements existed in the remote past with smallpox, and also with the 20th century Spanish Flu (which actually originated in the New World at Ft. Riley, Kansas). Such conditions MAY eventually be replicated with the bird flu.\n\nAIDS viruses originated in primates as far as is known. Possible ways for this virus to have originally infected humans include the hunting and eating of the original primate species; a bite would be another possible route. The viruses arguably would have remained rare medical curiosities but for 20th century conditions such promiscuity, widespread use of hypodemic needles in medicine and drug addiction, tourist travel, vast economic growth, and transportation improvements such as railroads, air travel, trucking, and shipping. These social and economic changes allowed the viruses to spread worldwide and infect millions of people.\n\nAnother currently controversial possibility for the origin of HIV/AIDS was discussed in a 1992 Rolling Stone magazine article by freelance journalist Tom Curtis. He put forward the theory that AIDS was inadvertantly caused in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by Hilary Koprowski's research into a polio vaccine. Although subsequently retracted due to libel issues surrounding its claims, the Rolling Stone article motivated another freelance journalist, Edward Hooper, to probe more deeply into this subject. Hooper's research resulted in his publishing a 1999 book, The River, in which he alleged that an experimental oral polio vaccine prepared using chimpanzee kidney tissue was the route through which SIV crossed into humans to become HIV, and thus to start the human AIDS pandemic, some time between 1957 to 1959. See OPV AIDS hypothesis.\n\nIt appears that either HIV existed in very low levels in the United States in periods prior to 1981, or it may have gone extinct in the United States at times, with the present infection established in the USA about 1976. HIV in Africa likewise was at first at levels too low to be noticed. The spread of the infection in both America and Africa was assisted by changing sexual mores related to rapid urbanization and economic change in the late 20th century. In the United States and Africa HIV was at first mostly found only in residents of large cities. The new urban lifestyle fostered greater sexual activity as it often included the breaking of old family and tribal bonds, as indivduals moved to start new lives far from their points of origin. The infection is now more widespread in rural areas, and has appeared in regions such as China and India, where it was previously not evident.\n\nTwo species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is more virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is less easily transmitted and is largely confined to West Africa. [1]\n\nBoth species of the virus (HIV-1 and HIV-2) are believed to have originated in West-Central Africa and jumped species (zoonosis) from primates to humans. HIV-1 evolved from a Simian Immuno
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Aids is such a broad subject. You probably need to condense it to a subject within Aids for example how about the effects  physically,socially,psychology on HIV infected children
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HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa is primarily a heterosexual disease; and many factors contribute towards it : low education levels, male-oriented societies with multiple partners and wives the norm, traditional healing/witchcraft beliefs (eg belief that sleeping with a virgin cures AIDS, discouragement of condoms), poverty/malnutrition and concomitant illnesses accelerating HIV progression, slow governmental reaction and lack of political leadership and will (South Africa), lack of money for adequate anti-retrovirals (and poor compliance due to lack of education), and a blind eye turned on the problem by the rest of the world when compared to ridiculously insignificant global problems (comparatively speaking) such as bird flu etc.\n\nIt is an absolute tragedy, and has decimated many communities (and continues to do so).
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Only in that children are already more susceptable to illnesses due to less mature immune systems already. Children with HIV are usually born with it, therefore are probably already suffering from the symptoms
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The biggest reason why a cure or vaccination are very far off are because HIV is a virus. There are no cures for the simple cold or flu virus, because viruses are very clever in that they constantly mutate and change so it is very difficult to come up with what Paul Elhrich would term "magic bullets" -ie a drug that would effectively deal with the virus, and not damage any other of the body's organisms. So basically if a thing keeps changing it is very difficlut to come up with something that will deal with it in its current state and any other future developments.
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Curing AIDS would be more difficult than curing the common cold. Viruses are harder to eliminate than bacteria, of course, but what makes HIV and colds difficult is that the virus is constantly mutating within the host itself that it would take so much time and effort just trying to cure one person and one strain within that person, but the results may not work for another individual.\n\nPREVENTATIVE measures are most important. If you want to help the HIV/AIDS epidemic, go into public health and work for the World Health Organization (WHO) especially in low-education areas.
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i do not worry about any of that stuff... i believe that when your time is up thats it...why worry, something is GOING to kill you whether it be an accident, sickness, or old age.  Worrying will only cause stress in your life which my wind up killing you in the long run.  So I say why worry about things like bird flu, SARS, West Nile, etc, etc.
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if you are refering to the avian bird flu in the news, only about 100 ppl have died of this in the last 3 years. i think we have more to worry about such as the effects of drugs, alcohol and sexually transmitted dieases than birds killing us.
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AIDS is caused by a virus. The history problem is the number of people that have died from it or will die. Incompetence in the medical profession as well as the poor handling of the problem by governments have been the biggest problem. The virus has the ability to mutate so quickly which has also presented a problem. My hypothesis for a solution would be to reduce the viral load then slow the immune response without hindering the power of the immune system. The top medical researchers in the world can explain how a reduction of virus load could be accomplished with alcohol ( a concentration not producing intoxication will be very sufficient ). A top AIDS researcher can verify research that has slowed the immune response so that cells survive ( I believe the jargon in medicine calls it entry inhibitors ). Perhaps AIDS researchers would verify the same thing could be accomplished with peppermint oil lozenges. This could be a less expensive solution to help third world countries. After this treatment for a short period of time medical researchers could introduce a vaccine (even a non-specific one) into the patients bloodstream. This treatment uses the natural immune system which means there wouldn't be the problems we now have in the virus mutating so rapidly rendering the drugs used now useless against it. If medical professionals really want to help people perhaps it could be a very good solution.
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This question is ridiculous. AIDS is not only an epidemic, it is a pandemic, and it is most certainly something to be scared of.\n\nThe HIV/AIDS virus is only transmissable through bodily fluids; blood and semen. For this reason, it is most commonly found in gay men and drug abusers. Gay men have anal sex, which usually results in some anal bleeding. When one man ejaculates, the semen can infect the open wounds from which the blood is emitting. This however, it not only seen in gay men, it is also a risk to women who have anal sex with an infected male. Transmission is no different.\n\nIn terms of transmission among drug abusers, this refers to drugs such as heroine which is taken with a needle. Drug abusers arent known for their cleanliness in this matter and  usually use needles which have already been used before. When the needle is used to inject someone with AIDS, it picks up the virus from their blood, when this needle is reused, the person who injects themself will most probably recieve the disease by introducing the infected blood of the first person into their own body.\n\nNo self respecting scientist...or educated person for that matter...would deny that AIDS is caused by a virus. It is a retrovirus and has been extensively studied. It cannot target any specific group of people. Those people are just more susceptible to it through unprotected anal sex and drug abuse with needles.\n\nIt is also very common for people who had blood transfusions in the late 70's and early 80's to have contracted the virus. This is because at that time there were far less restrictions on who could or could not give blood; also, not enough was known about the virus to test blood donors for the disease.\n\nI'm sorry to tell you that the AIDS in africa is the same AIDS we have here, in fact, 50% of the South African army is infected with the HIV virus. There have been more deaths in Africa due to AIDS than there have been deaths by malaria. It is more common in africa due to their lack of contraception, and their significantly less sanitary and deprived medical centers.
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Human immunodeficiency virus, commonly known by the initialism HIV, formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus, is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells. It also directly and indirectly destroys CD4+ T cells. As CD4+ T cells are required for the proper functioning of the immune system, when enough CD4+ T cells have been destroyed by HIV, the immune system functions poorly, leading to the syndrome known as AIDS. HIV also directly attacks organs, such as the kidneys, the heart and the brain leading to acute renal failure, cardiomyopathy, dementia and encephalopathy. Many of the problems faced by people infected with HIV result from failure of the immune system to protect from opportunistic infections and cancers.\n\nHIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid or breast milk. This transmission can come in the form of: penetrative (anal or vaginal) sex; oral sex; blood transfusion; contaminated needles; exchange between mother and infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding; or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.\n\nAIDS is thought to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century [13] and is now a pandemic. At the end of 2004, UNAIDS estimated that nearly 40 million people were currently living with HIV [14]. The World Health Organization estimated that the AIDS epidemic had claimed more than 3 million people and that 5 million people had acquired HIV in the same year. Currently it is estimated that 28 million people have died and that it is set to infect 90 million people in Africa, resulting in a minimum estimate of 18 million orphans in Africa alone
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nope .....cancer kills millions more , driving kills millions , murderers kill millions \n\nchicken flu killed 7 people worldwide i bet there has been more kills by pcs blowing up ...\n\ndont be scared its just to get your mind off the war ...!!!
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sure,by blood spread it can go 2 ur heart,lungs &may even go 2 brain....but it all depends on when do u discover it...ur immunity&sticking 2 treatment.....u know what?AIDS is an infection&it absolutely kills
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Acquired (or acute) Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome.\n\nIt had other names in the past, most people are unaware of that and think of it as a sudden plague but it's been around for a very long time. \nOccasionally an aggressive strain of the HIV virus can cause it to be very deadly but HIV is not the only cause of a deficient immune system.
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Hi buddy,\n\nThe HIV virus is a very fragile virus that gets easily killed on drying or contact with ordinary toilet soap or even very dilute spirit.The world wide fear of this infection is not because it gets easily transmitted or that its a tough virus to kill.Its just because the virus attacks the patient's immune system. Death in an HIV infected person comes in the form of other diseases that attack the person when his body's defence mechanisms are in a weak state.\n Human saliva is not demonstrated by research to contain enough load of virus as to cause infection to another person ingesting it. There is a theoretical possibility of the virus getting transmitted thru deep kissing, if the kisser has a mouth ulcer. The virus in that case has a (very small) chance to enter the body of the individual thru this open wound in the mouth. Still the virus may not survive the variable pH levels and salt concentrations of the human saliva.   And all the more, the probability of this type of  transmission is less than 0.01% . In day to day life that kind of probability is considered as ZERO chance...!  Hence we, healthcare workers don't consider saliva as a potential source of infection. Like wise, the chance of a mosquito transmitting the virus is somewhere near 0.004%..!!\n\nRegarding Web sources on AIDS, the United Nations' website is the ultimate knowledge bank ... Log on to www.unaids.org and find a wealth of info and links.\nAll the best.\nBye.