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AIDS in Our Society - There is a killer among our society.
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AIDS in Our Society There is a killer among our society. Everyone has heard of it and has seen it, but no one knows when it is going to strike. It feeds on our children, men, women, blacks and whites, young and old. It can attack at anytime and sometimes we don't even no it's there. It can't be stop! It goes by the name AIDS. AIDS has spread from across the sea to our country; to our state and city; right to our very own backyard. AIDS is a disease of the immune system caused by infection with the retrovirus HIV, which destroys certain white blood cells and is transmitted through blood or bodily secretions such as semen. Patients lose the ability to fight infections, often dying from secondary causes such as pneumonia or Kaposi's Sarcoma (Microsoft Dictionary). In 1983, Robert C. Gallo of the National cancer Institute and Luc Montagnier of...
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