Ecoli
HIV/AIDS
Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is one of the most devastating diseases to touch the human race. Understanding its nature, transmission, and prevention is important for everyone, and it is only through education and skills that people can practice prevention!
HIV, the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), was first found in Africa, South America, and the Caribbean (Packer). It was related to STLV-I, which is a virus found in monkeys (Packer). Researchers believe that both viruses came from a common ancestor in Africa. Reports of an AIDS-like illness in central Africa dates to the early 1970s, but researches never found out how the virus got into humans. One theory was that people were bitten by infected monkeys, but it was never proved to be true. Researched believed that people infected with the virus left Africa and went to the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The virus then spread to the United States and the rest of the world.......
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