2006-12-20 15:06:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Aquired immune deficiency syndrome is caused by the HIV virus. The virus basically wears down the immune system until the immune system is weakened. Then it becomes full blown AIDS. Over time the immune system can't fight off small things like colds or bacteria from a small cut. A person with AIDS can more easily develop pneumonia or something similar and die from that. That's why when a person dies from it, it's usually said that they died from complications from AIDS.
2006-12-20 15:16:03 · answer #1 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The short version is this. Once you actually get AIDS, your immune system starts to not function anymore. That means that any little bug, infection, cold, etc. will now have free reign in your body.
Normally, if you got a little cut and it got infected, you'd maybe flush it with hydrogen peroxide or if it was real bad, go to the doctor and get some amoxicillan and it would go away in about a week. If you have AIDS simple cures like that no longer work and what once was no big deal now may put you into the hospital for weeks taking really high powered and special antibiotics.
2006-12-20 23:18:28 · answer #2 · answered by jkm65 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aids is a virus that shuts down a persons immune system. Aids doesn't technically kill anyone the illnesses that your immune system would normally fight (flu, pneumonia for example) kills you.
2006-12-20 23:10:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they desstroy your imune system, your imune system fights off sicknesses and diseases, so once its destroyed its much easier to get sick, and much harder to recover, its rarely the aids itself that kills some one, but instead a sickness that their body cant fight off due to aids
2006-12-20 23:09:19 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋