2006-07-22 19:41:19 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
HIV stores in a person's blood and lymphatic system.
2006-07-22 19:44:19 · answer #1 · answered by The Apple Chick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How Does HIV Affect the Body?
A healthy body is equipped with CD4 helper lymphocyte cells (CD4 cells). These cells help the immune system function normally and fight off certain kinds of infections. They do this by acting as messengers to other types of immune system cells, telling them to become active and fight against an invading germ.
The HIV virus attaches to these CD4 cells, infects them, and uses them as a place to multiply. In doing so, the virus destroys the ability of the infected cells to do their job in the immune system. The body then loses the ability to fight many infections.
Because their immune systems are weakened, people who have AIDS are unable to fight off many infections, particularly tuberculosis and other kinds of otherwise rare infections of the lung (such as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia), the surface covering of the brain (meningitis), or the brain itself (encephalitis). People who have AIDS tend to keep getting sicker, especially if they are not taking antiviral medications properly.
AIDS can affect every body system. The immune defect caused by having too few CD4 cells also permits some cancers that are stimulated by viral illness to occur — some people with AIDS get forms of lymphoma and a rare tumor of blood vessels in the skin called Kaposi's sarcoma. Because AIDS is fatal, it's important that doctors detect HIV infection as early as possible so a person can take medication to delay the onset of AIDS.
2006-07-23 02:44:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
HIV permeates the body. Anywhere there are body fluids there is the potential for HIV to be present.
2006-07-23 02:48:30 · answer #3 · answered by Paul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well...considering that blood is in every bit of tissue we have... and that no cell is more than a few cells away from a capillary at least... it wouldnt matter much! even bone is technically alive.
Also, viruses are much smaller than cells, much so. they could easily get into places (like the canals of bone material) that cells couldnt get to.
2006-07-23 02:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most body fluids
2006-07-23 02:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by LIFE-SAVER 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so.
2006-07-23 02:44:26 · answer #6 · answered by Jennifer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋