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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a destruction of the immune system resulting from infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV was first isolated in 1983 in Los-Angelus by ______________ first known as 'Gay Cancer' because it was most commonly found in homosexual males was about to become one of the worlds most deadly and most familiar sexually transmitted disease. It was to become general knowledge that HIV could be transmitted by several different types of sex between Homosexual and Heterosexual couples. In the early 90's over twelve thousand cases of AIDS were recorded this was only the start of the world epidemic, which has now reached as staggering 47 million cases world wide. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), member of the Retroviridae family of viruses (commonly known as retroviruses), and classified in the subfamily lentiviruses. These viruses have several common features: a long incubation period before disease onset, infection of...
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