why cant our body fight off HIV?

Question

our immune system should recognize it as a virus right? can it not defend itself cuz the HIV virus attacks the immune system specifically?

Answer 1

Because HIV and AIDS don't attack the body they do after the very immune system that would take care of it.

Ex: you are the celeb, White blood cells and friends are your bodyguards and keep you safe. HIV and AIDS pop out of the Bently and spray a clip at your posse and wipe them out. NOW you are vulnerable to the good bad and ugly.

Answer 2

The virus responsible for the condition known as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), is named HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). AIDS is the condition whereby the body's specific defense system against all infectious agents no longer functions properly. There is a focused loss over time of immune cell function which allows intrusion by several different infectious agents, the result of which is loss of the ability of the body to fight infection and the subsequent acquisition of diseases such as pneumonia. We will examine the virus itself, the immune system, the specific effect(s) of HIV on the immune system, the research efforts presently being made to investigate this disease, and finally, how one can try to prevent acquiring HIV.


They are retroviruses.....

Answer 3

You answered the question yourself....... the virus attacks and weakens and destroys the immune system. it isn't the HIV virus that kills you, it's the inability to fight off "normal" things like pneumonia because the immune system is destroyed.

Answer 4

The virus is like a lock and our immune system is like a key. Once the immune system shapes itself to the lock and gets ready to open and destroy the virus, the virus changes shape.

Answer 5

Because the virus infects the very cells that usually fight off viral infection. Also, it mutates very quickly, evading our ability to adapt.

Answer 6

Its a bit more than just a virus because when evolved, it destroys
your imune system.