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AIDS:Is There A Cure? Are There Preventions? Essay, Research Paper


AIDS:Is There a Cure? Are There Preventions?


What is AIDS? How do you cure it? Find out by reading this report on


cures and preventions for the AIDS virus. In this report some of the topics


covered will be a small report on AIDS, preventions, and possible cures. This


report was written to prove if there is a cure for the AIDS virus, and if there


are any ways to prevent contracting AIDS. I mean who does AIDS think it is just


killing people?


AIDS is a virus that kills your immune system. The letters in AIDS stand


for Acquired, Immune, Deficiency, Syndrome. (Madaras,185-6)


There are four ways the AIDS virus can be spread. The first is by having


sexual intercourse with someone infected with the virus. AIDS is transmitted


this way by way of the semen. This is also the way most people get AIDS.


(Madaras,187) The second most common way people get AIDS is by dirty intravenous


needles. It is transmitted by the blood or other body fluids on the needle, and


when someone else then uses the same needle, they have a high risk of catching


the virus. The third most common way AIDS is spread is by blood transfusions.


This is done almost the same way as by IV needle but it is always by the


blood.(Madaras,187) The most rare way the AIDS virus is spread is by a mother


passing it to fetus inside her.(Madaras,188)


AIDS is a very rapidly-spreading disease although it is only spread four


ways. Ten years ago only two cases of AIDS were known. Nine years ago only seven


cases were known. In 1983 over 3,000 cases were recorded, and by 1989, there


were more than 100,000 cases. (Samuel,26)


Many people think you can get AIDS by what scientists call “casual


contact.” Casual contact is by such means as swimming pools, kissing, toilet


seats, etc. “…it’s important to remember that the AIDS virus doesn’t live in


the air or on things we touch, the way cold or flu viruses do. (Madaras,186)


There have been no cases recorded where the infection was caused by casual


contact.


The part of your body that the AIDS virus kills is your immune system as


mentioned before, but what it really kills is your white blood cells. White


blood cells usually attack a virus when it enters the body.


“It is a relatively new disease. The first cases in this country were


discovered in 1981.” (Madaras,185-6) Still, in all this time, scientists have


not figured out a cure or vaccine for the virus because they do not even know


how the AIDS virus cripples your white blood cells.


A common symptom AIDS patients get is developing rare types of skin


cancer. (Aids:Everything you should know,movie,AIMS,1989) Really AIDS doesn’t


kill you–other germs or viruses do because when they enter the body there is


no immune system to protect your body so they can live freely. (Samuel,27)


There is no 100% sure way to prevent AIDS, and there is always a


possibility that you may contract the AIDS virus. (Aids:Everything you should


know,movie,AIMS,1989) The only true 100% sure prevention fr

om getting AIDS is


called abstinence which means not having sex. (Madaras,166) The other way to


protect yourself from AIDS when you have sex is by using condoms. Although


condoms are not a 100% sure way to protect yourself from AIDS, it’s still better


than doing nothing. (Madaras,166) A condom is a thin piece of rubber that fits


over the erect penis that traps the semen at the end. (Madaras,166) “Clearly it


would be helpful and self protective if a person who has a high risk sexual


life-style could at least modify it to make it less risky.” (Nourse,128)


The only really sure way to protect yourself from getting AIDS by


needles is not to use them, but if you do, there are ways to prevent contracting


AIDS. The first is not to use needles that someone else has used before you.


Today doctors use different needles for each patient. (Madaras,187)


The hardest way to prevent getting AIDS is when you are going to have


a blood transfusion. A blood transfusion is when you’re going to have surgery


and you need somebody’s blood to replace the blood that you lost during the


operation. One way to protect yourself from AIDS when you’re going to have a


blood transfusion is by checking out the person that donated the blood and to


see if he/she has contracted AIDS or has AIDS symptoms. The other way is to try


to donate your own blood ahead of time. As I said before, since 1985 all blood


must be scanned for the AIDS virus before it is used. (Aids:Everything you


should know,movie, AIMS,1989)


Many scientists today dedicate their whole lives to finding cures for


some kind of disease and many of them are trying to find a cure for AIDS. Such


drugs as AZT, DDL and Pyridinone have been used in attempting to retard the


development of the AIDS symptoms. (Cowley,51) Although none of the above drugs


actually cure AIDS, they do slow it down. In Michigan, a hospital has combined


all three of the drugs in a test tube and the mixture killed the virus. They


did this because the virus mutates so fast that one drug alone will not do it,


but if you send AIDS three drugs, it can’t fight them all at one time so it dies.


(Cowley,51) These are all chemical cures but other scientists are also working


on genetic cures. Wong Follie has dedicated almost her whole life to finding a


cure for AIDS and other diseases. One of the possible cures she is working on


works by making a semi-copy of the AIDS virus. The part that actually kills


your immune system has been crippled. When the drone enters the body the immune


systems fights it. So basically what it is doing is teaching the immune system


how to kill the real AIDS virus when it comes. This has not actually been


tested because of the time it takes to make the drone.


So basically, in this report, you have found out that AIDS is a killer


and that anyone is vulnerable to the disease. There is no 100% percent sure way


to prevent the AIDS virus, so you better be very careful what you do. And


finally, you learned that there is no 100% test-proven cure, so once you get it


you’re stuck with it forever.

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