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Any cold, illness, or bacteria you come into contact with could kill you. AIDS attacks the body's white blood cells (they fight off infections + kill foreign invaders) those who suffer from AIDS have little to no immune system so any germ or cold they come into contact with is potentially life threatening. There is no cure for AIDS but medication helps maintain at least a small part of your immune system. In other words, to answer your questions, you could die.
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∙ 12y agoIt 'destroys' your immune system. It doesn't kill you, but if you eg. catch a cold you may die from it because you don't have white blood cells to protect your body. However the HIV virus can remain dormant in your body for a very long time and not activate itself into AIDS, and it may not develop into AIDS at all.
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∙ 6y agoWhen first infected with human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) the symptoms are identical to the flu, but then the virus hides inside the T lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell that is part of the immune system) and becomes latent causing no more symptoms.
After the end of the latent period (can be several years to a couple decades) the virus reawakens, it begins killing the T lymphocytes, causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome(AIDS) which results in suppression of the immune system. Without a properly functioning immune system the symptoms are infections and cancers, many of them unusual and/or rare.
Ultimately if not treated to stop the HIV replication a person with AIDS dies of one or more of the infections or cancers that took advantage of the weakened immune system.
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∙ 14y agoAIDS (a disease characterized by a white blood cell or leukocyte count lower than 200) results in a myriad of infections including sepsis, thrush, urinary tract infections, and tuberculosis.
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∙ 14y agoThe lasting effect of having aids is that you immune system does not work properly. this results in a person becoming deadly ill from any number of infections.
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∙ 11y agoDeath, infection
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∙ 14y agosometimes death depends on how bad it is
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Disease that affects one of the body systems?
Osteoporosous and Aids
When does aids happen and how it affects body or organs?
aids happen when the HIV virus is introduce into a living tissue. it affects the body by firstly attacking the body's defense system. it attacks the defense system and weakens it. After the body 's defense system is weak to perform its duties, the body has no option to any disease that attacks it.
How do you get HIV aids and how old do you have to be to get HIV aids?
you get aids when an infected person introduces the virus into any living tissue of yours. aids is not a respecter of man as in law. it affects any body provided you avail yourself to its causes.
How is the reproductive system affected by AIDS?
AIDS affects the body as a whole, not particularly the sex organs. The virus just enters the fluids and makes it possible to spread it to your partners.
How does aids affects your lifestyle?
Does your lifestyle affect whether or not you get aids?
Areas in the body least affected by aids?
AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome affects your immune system. This mean it will affect your whole body by making it very easy for you to get any disease. There is not really any area of your body that won't be affected.
What is aids and how deos it affect the body?
Aids is generally a virus that affects the body by invading cells with the ability to destroy them and spread to other cells by dividing rapidly at any given time. The virus takes that advantage when the person with Aids gets a cold, a weakened immune system, causing them to die
Which cells are infected by Aids?
Aids isn't the disease that affects any cells, the virus that affects your CD4 cells is HIV. Aids (auto immune defiency syndrome) is what a person gets from HIV and ultimately dies from complications due to AIDS. colds and flus.
What are the long term affects of AIDS?
Illness then death
Will AIDS affect the people in Antarctica?
Affects everyone
What organisms does aids affect?
It affects mainly your immune system.
What part of the boby does the diseseae AIDS affect?
The virus that causes AIDS, the HIV virus, affects the immune system.
