AIDS

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency  Syndrome). This fatal disease was first introduced in Los Angeles, in 1981. The virus that cause AIDS is known as HIV (Human Immune-Deficiency Virus). This disease spread through ;

• oral sex or sexual intercourse with someone who carries this virus, especially if it is anal intercourse.
• by the use of infected needles or instruments that contaminated with HIV infected blood.
• by receiving the blood or blood products from someone carrying HIV.
• from the mothers who are carrying HIV which can pass into baby.  

AIDS is spreading so rapidly throughout the western world, and has an epidemic proportion in the eastern and central Africa.
This virus attacks the particular type of white blood cells that reduce the ability to combat infection. It can attack the nervous system also. Therefore acute infection leads to the production of antibodies. When someone acquire that virus, a transient flu-like sickness with gland swelling and muscles aches may occurs.