Cause and effect of AIDS
Title: Cause and effect of AIDS
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 847 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Cause and effect of AIDS
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 847 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
In 1981, a new fatal, infectious disease was diagnosed--AIDS (Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome). It began in major cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Francisco. People, mostly homosexual men and intravenous drug users, were dying from very rare lung infections or from a cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma. They have not seen people getting these diseases in numerous years. Soon, it also affected hemophiliacs, blood recipients, prostitutes and their customers, and babies born from
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high-profile victims began to contract the virus, such as basketball star Magic Johnson, the feeling spread quickly that anyone, not just particular groups of people, could be at risk. AIDS impairs the human body's immune system and leaves the victim susceptible to various infections. With new research, scientists think that the disease was first contracted through a certain type of green monkey in Africa, then somehow mutated into a virus that a human could get