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The immune system consists of many different types of white blood cells that circulate throughout the body in blood and lymph. These white blood cells have various activities and properties that can distinguish them from one another. For instance some produce antibodies that bind or attack foreign material, termed antigen, and eliminated it from the body. Other white blood cells interact with the infected or diseased cells and destroy them. Some white bloods cells act as helper cells, or also known as T4 cells. What these cells do is support other cells of immunity in their efforts to defend the body against infection. But still there are other white cells, T8 or suppressor cells that act as suppressors or dampeners of the immune system and are active after the job of elimination foreign material has been done. Now, imagine that you just walked into the doctor’s office for the results of your annual check up. The doctor starts to read your results and at the end he tells you he has bad news. You’re in shock because of what he has just said, “You have AIDS!” This is an every day ritual for doctors. What is AIDS? This is a question that is commonly asked. AIDS short term for Acquired Immuno-defiency Syndrome, is a life threatening condition that is a result of the infection Human Immuno-defiency Virus also known as HIV. HIV does not kill because it is only an infection, which leads to the virus of AIDS. Diseases that are harmful to a healthy person can be deadly to a person infected with HIV. How can one get AIDS? You can get HIV by the use of drug practice and use of needles, which is the leading cause of deaths today in the United States. Another way of getting HIV is by having unprotected sex with a person who is infected with HIV or AIDS.
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