What exactly is AIDS?
AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Advertisement if (typeof ord==’undefined’) {ord=Math.random()*10000000000000000;} document.write(”); In this disease, HIV damages the immune system, so the body is no longer able to fight off diseases that normally it would be able to fight off. HIV infects and eventually destroys a specific type of cell in your immune system called a CD4 cell (also called a T4 cell or a T helper cell). Think of the CD4 cells as the generals of the immune-system army. The CD4 cells tell other immune-system cells what to do when an invading organism, germ or cancer cell is found in the body. Basically HIV kills off the CD4 cells (that is, it kills off the generals of the army). When the generals of the immune-system army are killed off, the rest of the immune system doesn’t know what to do to fight off invaders. This is how HIV damages the immune system.
AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Advertisement In this disease, HIV damages the immune system, so the body is no longer able to fight off diseases that normally it would be able to fight off. HIV infects and eventually destroys a specific type of cell in your immune system called a CD4 cell (also called a T4 cell or a T helper cell). Think of the CD4 cells as the generals of the immune-system army. The CD4 cells tell other immune-system cells what to do when an invading organism, germ or cancer cell is found in the body. Basically HIV kills off the CD4 cells (that is, it kills off the generals of the army). When the generals of the immune-system army are killed off, the rest of the immune system doesn’t know what to do to fight off invaders. This is how HIV damages the immune system. When HIV first enters the body, your immune system immediately attacks the virus, and keeps it under contro
