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New AIDS-Like Disease Currently Spreading Around the World
Technically, the new disease can be called AIDS but it's definately not HIV, for several reasons - one being that it doesn't seem to be transferred from human to human through a virus. Also, HIV is a very specific disease that attacks the immune system in a very specific way. It is very effective at killing a body's T-cells. This disease does not. Over time, the patients' immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off infections as healthy people do. The disease is another kind of "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome" that occurs in adults and is not genetically inherited. Average age of those who are assumed to be infected with this new disease is around 50, but it does not run in families. Some people have died from numerous infections attributed to the disease, most of which were in Asia. The number of deaths is currently unknown. In 2009, a 62 year old Vietnamese woman who had lived in Tennessee since 1975 and traveled to Viet Nam in 1995 and early 2009 sought help for fever and constant infections. These infections persisted throughout her bones along with other odd symptoms. She was always a small woman but her weight decreased over the years from around 100 pounds down to less than 70. Health officials are currently studying the disease and keeping an eye out for other cases. Very little is known about the disease but it is almost a certainty that many more cases exist around the world that health officials are unaware of. <--> |
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