AIDS
Aids is a disease that effects the immune system. Your immune system
is unable to fight off diseases, viruses, and infections. Aids usually makes
you very skinny and tired, and it effects the nerves system in your brain. You
also can get certain cancers from aids especially Kaposi's sarcoma, are purple
lesions on the skin, and tumors known as B-cell lymphomas.
Aids can be transmitted through several ways by blood, through
intimate sexual contact, from infected mothers to there babies in there uterus,
and even through infected mother's milk. A major way of getting the disease
was through blood transfusion that was before they had a test for screening
blood. Another major way of getting it is through blood contaminated
needles by intravenous drug abusers. Blood donors and casual contact is
definitely not a way you can catch the disease. It could take up to ten years
for symptoms to develop because it usually stays......
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