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Aids and HIV
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AIDS and HIV by Joe Weller Human immunodeficiency virus is one of the world's most prominent diseases. It is a condition which attacks the immune system, making way for other opportunistic diseases, often life-threatening, to attack the body. It was recognised as a disease on December 1st 1981and, as of January 2006, HIV/AIDS has killed more than 25 million people. This means that it is one of the most destructive pandemics in recorded history. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a collection of diseases and infections. Due to its nature of being almost random set of opportunistic T is very difficult to find a cure for as many strains have developed. It is now generally accepted that HIV is a descendant of a Simian Immunodeficiency Virus because certain strains of SIVs bear a very close resemblance to HIV-1 and HIV-2, the two types of HIV. In February 1999 a group of researchers from...
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