2007-02-13 22:40:37 · 2 answers · asked by nikki d 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
The reactions to HIV is similar to the reactions to any other virus, bacterium or protozoa in our system, which is a flood of antibodies (chemicals that your body produces to prevent further infection). Unfortunately, since the virus mutates rapidly and constantly (because of its unstable retroviral RNA reproduction mechanism produces imperfect copies) the antibodies towards HIV are useless because the virus never stays the same.
That's why a vaccine against HIV is VERY difficult to find and may never be found, although there are a few proteins in HIV that do stay the same and the latest HIV therapy makes the body recognize the protein in HIV that stays the same in the virus.
2007-02-14 12:08:41 · answer #1 · answered by enigma_frozen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AIDS or HIV (i forget which) attacks the Helper-T cells in the Immune system. This means that the 3rd level of defense against other diseases is down. So if you get a cold that you've never gotten before, you could die. The reaction is they try to "eat" them, but there are too many...
If this is horribly wrong, then nevermind.
2007-02-13 22:45:00 · answer #2 · answered by ~Geeks Will Rule The World~ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋