Immunology

AIDS

Immunology

AIDS = Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome

HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68I7JlVhuhY

Disease

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7ITZgag6w0&feature=related

Process

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P91nIGt1axs&feature=relmfu

Infection

T cell count below 200 = AIDS

T cell count normally 500 - 1,500

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GK6Vg008Mk&feature=relmfu

Testing

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

History

June 5th 1981 in LA10 gay men

First Person 1959 in Congo

First USA was 1969

Very similar to SIV (primates)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7PU5I1BZ7g

Treatment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLreHYWsk3s&feature=relmfu