Acknowledging Our Fears

Acknowledging Our Fears

  • Submitted By: chipgirl18
  • Date Submitted: 10/09/2008 6:44 PM
  • Category: Science
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Don’t run, please don’t tell me to stop” I say but I’m going to do something that nobody likes to do today talk about AIDS!!!!! At the mention of these words people began to cringe but if we acknowledge what we fear, it’s the first step to overcoming our fears.
AIDS is the postponed stage of Human Immunodefiency Virus (HIV). HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system it causes healthy white blood cells to replicate themselves. This causes the immune system to break down leaving the body mores susceptible to illness. A patient diagnosed HIV positive develops AIDS when they are left without a sufficient immune system to fight off infections. Most people that die who have AIDS don’t usually die from the disease itself but from the diseases that a normal immune system would usually fight off in a couple of weeks, for example Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, and ect…
A study in an AIDS brochure states that one out of every four people who have AIDS don’t even know they have it because they want get tested until they develop the symptoms. Ignorance and fear is sometimes the key to this disease spreading so fast in America. People refuse to believe that their body and their love ones are susceptible to this disease because they look healthy. It takes the immune system quite a while to pick up this disease so it might be a couple of years for the symptoms to show up depending on the person. No matter how pretty you are, how popular you are, and how rich you are if you are human then your body is susceptible to this disease.
AIDS is transmitted from person to person through exchange of body fluids such as blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. There are several modes of transmissions of being infected by AIDS or HIV. Statistics show that one of the most common modes of transmission is sexually, engaging in unprotected sex such as anal, vaginal and oral. Other modes of transmissions are sharing needles with...

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