Immunology discusses HIV/AIDS, including that HIV is the virus that causes AIDS when it destroys T cells in the immune system. The document outlines how HIV enters cells through macrophages, integrates into the cell's nucleus, and hijacks the cell to produce more viruses. It notes that AIDS is diagnosed when the T cell count drops below 200 and that there were over 33 million people infected with HIV globally in 2009, with around 3 million new infections and 2 million AIDS-related deaths that year, making it one of the top causes of mortality.
2. HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS = Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome
Disease
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68I7JlVhuhY
4. Where is it? Body Fluids
How it gets in? Gets eaten by macrophage
Delivers to T helper Cell
Enters nucleus can becomes part of cell
Immune system tries to fight it just makes more HIV
Process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7ITZgag6w0&feature=related
8. Numbers = 33.4 million infected in 2009
Numbers = 3 million new each year
Deaths = 2 million new each year
Deaths = 4th leading cause of death
9. History
June 5th 1981 in LA
10 gay men
First USA was 1969
First Person 1959 in Congo
Very similar to SIV (primates)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7PU5I1BZ7g
