AIDS - Help with Questions below, thanks.?

Question

How does AIDS work within the Body itself and how does it enter, reproduce and wreck destruction on the body?

And how does our immune system react to this virus?

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS


Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).[1] The late stage of the condition leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumors. Although treatments for AIDS and HIV exist to slow the virus's progression, there is no known cure. HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk.[2][3] This transmission can come in the form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.

Answer 2

When the AIDS virus (HIV) gets into the blood system, it attackes the Helper T cells by entering inside of it and getting it to reproduce more of the HIV virus. Because the virus actually becomes a part of the Helper T cell, the Killer T cell is not alerted that there is an invader present. As the virus grows in the Hlper T cells, it breaks opend and releases other virus whicha ttack the other Helper T cells.
White blood cells, call B cells, produce antibodies which attach to the pathogen and prevent it from harming the body. The B cells produce antibodies to HIV. If a person feels they may have HIV, the can be tested for the HIV antibodies. this is how a person learns if they are infected with HIV; thsi si the way it is detemined that a person is infected. The HIV continues to attack more Helper T cells and destroys them. Without the Helper T cells to signal the immune system, the body is then left open to attack by other pathogens. The spread of the virus in the body takes from two to twelve or more years before it destroys enough of the Helper T cells to seriously weaken the immune system...

Answer 3

Aids is not a disease in it self its a result of an immune disfunction. A bad or mutated virus that enters the body through liquids and attacks heathy cells. If you ever seen the movie "THE THING" from John Carpenter, its something like that but very much on a smaller scale.

Answer 4

HIV/AIDS

*causative agent: HIV 1 retrovirus

*Mode of transmission:
sexual contact,
blood transfusion,
contaminated syringes, needles, nipper, razor blades,
direct contact of open wound/mucuos membrane with contaminated blood, body fluids, semen & vaginal discharges.

if a person is affected by this (communicable) sexually transmitted disease, the signs and symptoms would occur from several months (3-6) to many years (8-10).

Answer 5

it enters through blood and it destroys white blood cells and the immune system, hendering the bodies ability to fight off diseases

Answer 6

Please refer to The Body for information on HIV/AIDS. They have a great deal of information.