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The History Of HIV

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The current worldwide crisis

Unfortunately, the AIDS epidemic continues today in Africa and much of Asia, where antiretroviral therapy is not available and health care is seriously Puget Sound Tide Tables Over 95% of AIDS cases and deaths occur outside the United States.

AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, the #1 cause of death due to infectious disease, and has surpassed malaria as the #1 killer in Africa. There are more than 2.2 million AIDS cases reported worldwide, and 33.6 million people are living with HIV/AIDS. More than 16 million people have died from AIDS. It caused 2.6 million deaths in 1999. According to the National Institutes of Health more than 3 million people will die from AIDS in 2000.

Today in History: AIDS in Africa

In early 1988, the AIDS hysteria was in full swing. The air was filled with the rhetoric of the innocent "general population" besieged by disease-ridden homosexual men. Just two months earlier, Pat Buchannan wrote an op-ed in the New York Post Addition Bath Bedroom Master when there is lots of virus in the body fluids, HIV isn't transmitted all that easily.

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In the early days of the epidemic, a diagnosis of HIV was a death sentence. The disease would eventually progress to AIDS, allowing any number of infections to attack the body. Doctors watched helplessly as the disease destroyed immune systems and killed the patient. Palliative care was the most that they could offer.

Acute Viral Syndrome

The first time period is during the first few weeks after infection from HIV. Some people who are newly infected may develop flu-like symptoms within the first month or so after getting HIV. These early symptoms can feel very much like the flu (fever, headache, Leg Rash fatigue, body aches, etc.), and they can be mild or severe. The flu-like symptoms typically last for only about week, and then go away on their own. Acute Viral Syndrome is not an ongoing condition that lasts for weeks and weeks or that comes and goes over a long period of time.

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