Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, also knowns as AIDS, remains the incurable disease. Many people from around the world have to live with AIDS their entire life. AIDS affects people of all ages, genders, and race. Many researchers have found the history of AIDS, how HIV turns into AIDS, AID symptoms and signs, what causes AIDS, AIDS diagnosis, treatments, how to prevent AIDS, and why AIDS remains incurable. First, AIDS has a long history. In the article, “Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)”, Mary Nettleman, et al, medical writers and editors, wrote, “Researchers first found that AIDS arrived in Africa, then spread to the rest of the world.” Animals, especially primates, got infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and AIDS first. Chimpanzees got the infection by eating red-capped mangabeys and greater spot nosed monkeys that carried the infection (“History of AIDS”). The primates that infected the humans remain the chimpanzees. “The strain found in chimpanzees did not have the name HIV, the infection was called SIVcpz” (“History of AIDS”). Researchers knew that SIVcpz caused HIV because SIVcpz almost completely matches HIV (“History of AIDS”). Eating …show more content…
AIDS starts out as HIV. HIV destroys CD4 T-cells (“HIV/AIDS”). CD4 T-cells, white blood cells, help fight the body from infections and cancers. The fewer CD4 T-cells a person has makes the immune system weaker, which causes them to catch other diseases or illnesses easier. If HIV does not receive treatment, then it will eventually turn into AIDS. HIV turns into AIDS after ten years of not receiving treatment. HIV has two stages before it turns into AIDS (“HIV/AIDS”). Primary infection, acute HIV, remains the first stage. Clinical latent infection, chronic HIV, remains the second stage. When the CD4 T-cell count reaches a certain number, HIV turns into AIDS. The CD4 T-cells stop fighting infections and cancers when AIDS appears (Nettleman, et