Aids: Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome :: essays research papers

acquired immune deficiency syndrome Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome     I am doing a report on aid, I dont experience much slightly AIDS further I willtell you what I know. I know that it is transmitted by sexualcontact,blood,needles,children during/before birth. I also know it affects theimmune trunk directly, It is caused by the virus HIV which they have no curefor all AIDS or HIV at the current moment, but they be doing seriousresearch on them.     I call it the "Generation X Disease" because it mostly affects my sex-oriented coevals. It is currently one of the leading causes of expiry in theUSA and the death rate is increasing drastically It it the faultless virus of theninties because of how it is transmitted is like what the ninties is approximately...sex and drugs(what a great generation huh).E realones doing drugs and having pre-marital sex at a young irresponsableage, its endureting so corky I am beginning to b elieve that I am the sole(prenominal) normalperson left.     You used to only be able to come up an HIV test at your doctor, but now theyhave class tests that are confidential. You go to the store pick one up markyour finger then mail in the blood sample, in about two or three weeks you callin and enter your extra pin number and they give you your results. I thinkthis is cool but there has to be some drawbacks like them getting samples messedup and it getting mixed up in the mail or other paradoxical things like that, like ifyou really dont have the disease but you get someone elses reading who doeshave HIV.     Thats about all I know about this horrible disease,so ill move on towhat I anchor when I reaserched this topic. I went on the internet to find someof my information, and i used different books the librarian recommended me toread on AIDS and HIV.     AIDS appears to be constantly changing its genetic structu re so itmakes it very hard to find a cure for it, and very hard for the luggage compartment to makeantibodies. This makes development of a vaccine that is able to raise preventativeantibodies to all virus strands a difficult task. I also open up out that theyhave made so much progress in finding a cure because they know so much about itnow.     The only known chemical substance that is effective in reducing reactions/symptoms,is the chemical zidovudine which was formerly called azidothymidine(AZT). Whichwas developed in 1987. It is indicated thet few if any are likely to survive the