2006-11-01 05:51:55 · 4 answers · asked by pnoiz1 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
HIV is the beginning stages of AIDS, before it hits the disease stage and is still just a virus. It is incurable. You can get it from the sharing of bodily fluids like blood and urine.
2006-11-01 05:54:39 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system and makes the person vulnerable to any kind of infection. It's transmitted by sexual contact, or contact with bodily fluids.
It's thought that the virus appeared in humans because people were eating infected animals.
2006-11-01 05:55:50 · answer #2 · answered by Blue Jean 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a person is infected with HIV, the virus enters the body and lives and multiplies primarily in the white blood cells. These are immune cells that normally protect us from disease.As the virus grows, it damages or kills these and other cells, weakening the immune system and leaving the person vulnerable to various opportunistic infections and other illnesses ranging from pneumonia to cancer.
2006-11-01 05:56:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An R.N.A. positive human retro virus called H.T.L.V. (human T cell lymphotropic virus), type 1. It was co-disc0overed by Dr. Luc Montagnier, and Dr. Gallo, in the late 1980's.
Doc. Dan.
2006-11-01 05:58:34 · answer #4 · answered by Dan S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋