Explain why a person with AIDS may also have pneumonia ( the main job of the white blood cells).?

Answer 1

A person with AIDS has a compromised immune system, which means that ANY sort of illness or infection can be serious or fatal.

Answer 2

A person with AIDS has a weakened immune system because the AIDS virus seeks out the white blood cells and kills them. As it kills the white blood cells your body becomes more vulnerable to becoming sick. Which makes it easy for your body to get pneumonia or any other disease. When you get sick your body cant fight it off because the AIDS is still killing the white blood cells

Answer 3

A person with AIDS, as the name indicates have a immunodeficiency this means that the immune system is not able to fight vs. viruses and bacterias that already exist inside us or that are surrounding us without causing diseases to healthy people, since they can fight this "normal" agents the patients with aids die because diseases that are not life treating to everybody else, a common cold for us can become a pneumonia for them

Answer 4

AIDS attacks the white blood cells making it easier for disease and infections to attack the body. Most people with AIDS do not die from it but from complications of it like pneumonia.

Answer 5

Not a very clear question.
I'll do my best.

-AIDS stands for Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

-It is easier for any kind of bacteria/virus to latch on and take hold once someone's t-cell count is down and their viral load is up.

-It is more diffucult for a person with AIDS to fight that infection, BECAUSE they have AIDS.

PS. AIDS is the ilness caused by the HIV virus.

Not everyone who tests HIV+ will go on to develop AIDS, but do not listen to wierdos/ppl with dodgy political agendas who will try to tell you that HIV does not cause AIDS. It's just that if HIV is diagnosed early there is a better chance to treat it than if it is left undiagnosed.

Even with early diagnosis, treatment does not always work, and in any case does not "cure" the HIV, it just (hopefully) hinders it from taking hold, delaying the onset of AIDS symptoms (ie secondary infection etc.)

Answer 6

If I'm not mistaken the variety of pneumonia they contract is kind of a fluke variety. But regardless, AIDS (Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome,) as its name implies, immobilizes the body's natural defenses against all kinds of diseases. While most of us are able to avoid common bugs, AIDS patients aren't.

Answer 7

A person with HIV has a very compromised immune system. This means that the body can not deffend itsels against diseases.

Pneumonia is one of the easiest diseases to get since most of its causative orgainisms are simply inhaled. The lungs are a viry prime location for bacteria because f the oxygen supply available. So its easier for them in the lungs.

Answer 8

People with AIDS often present with severe infections if they do not already know they have AIDS. Pneumonia, particularly pneumocystitis carinii, is a common AIDS related infection.

Answer 9

as soon as HIV becomes full blown AIDS, the immune system is compromised so any little thing that a person without aids can get over or not even get in the first place, with the immune system compromised, its easy to get sick. colds can easily become pneumonia for them.

Answer 10

Any foreign particle in a body would be scanned by WBC's in a human but with the case of AIDS, a person loses his WBC's on a daily basis which inturn weakens his immune system or the ability to protect one's body from any foreign substance.