No Cure for AIDS

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No Cure for AIDS

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

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