AIDS:Is There A Cure? Are There Preventions?

Title	AIDS:Is There A Cure? Are There Preventions?
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AIDS:Is There a Cure? Are There Preventions?

AIDS:Is There a Cure? Are There Preventions?

     What is AIDS? How do you cure it? Find out by reading this report on
cures and preventions for the AIDS virus.  In  this report some of the topics
covered will be a small report on AIDS, preventions, and possible cures. This
report was written to prove if there is a cure for the AIDS virus, and if there
are any ways to prevent contracting AIDS.  I mean who does AIDS think it is just
killing people?

     AIDS is a virus that kills your immune system. The letters in AIDS stand
for Acquired, Immune, Deficiency, Syndrome. (Madaras,185-6)

     There are four ways the AIDS virus can be spread. The first is by having
sexual intercourse with someone infected with the virus. AIDS is transmitted
this way by way of the semen. This is also the way most people get AIDS.
(Madaras,187) The second most common way people get AIDS is by dirty intravenous
needles. It is transmitted by the blood or other body  fluids on the needle, and
when someone else then uses the same needle, they have a high risk of catching
the virus.  The third most common way AIDS is spread is  by blood transfusions.
This is done almost the same way as by IV needle but it is always by the
blood.(Madaras,187)   The most rare way the  AIDS virus is spread is by a mother
passing it to fetus inside her.(Madaras,188)

     AIDS is a very rapidly-spreading disease although it is only spread four
ways. Ten years ago only two cases of AIDS were known. Nine years ago only seven
cases were known. In 1983 over 3,000 cases were recorded, and by 1989, there
were more than 100,000 cases. (Samuel,26)

     Many people think you can get AIDS by what scientists  call "casual
contact."   Casual contact is by such means as swimming pools, kissing, toilet
seats, etc. "...it's important to remember that the AIDS virus doesn't live in
the air or on things we touch, the way cold or flu viruses do. (Madaras,186)
There have been no cases recorded where the infection was caused by casual
contact.

     The part of your body that the AIDS virus kills is your immune system as
mentioned before, but what it really kills is your  white blood cells.  White
blood cells usually attack a virus when it enters the body.
     "It is a relatively new disease.  The first cases in this country were
discovered in 1981." (Madaras,185-6) Still, in all this time, scientists have
not figured out a cure or vaccine for the virus because they do not even know
how the AIDS virus cripples your white blood cells.

     A common symptom AIDS patients get is developing rare types of skin
cancer. (Aids:Everything you should know,movie,AIMS,1989) Really AIDS doesn't
kill you--other germs or viruses do because when they enter the body there is
no immune system  to protect your body so they can live freely. (Samuel,27)

     There is no  100% sure way to  prevent AIDS, and there is always a
possibility that you may contract the AIDS virus. (Aids:Everything you should
know,movie,AIMS,1989) The only true 100% sure prevention from getting  AIDS is
called abstinenc...

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