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Deadly Diseases And Epidemic: HIV/AIDS

Patrick G. Guilfoile, Ph.D.
Consulting Editor: Hilary Babcock, M.D., M.P.H.
Infectious Diseases Division, Washington University School of Medicine,
Medical Director of Occupational Health (Infectious Diseases),
Barnes-Jerwish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital

Foreword by David Heymann
World Health Organization

This book describes one of the deadly diseases that have been identified by the medical until now, in the volume of this book explains about HIV / AIDS, the origin of HIV / AIDS came from the story of Ryan White’s disease that had hemofilia until finally he was identified attacked HIV / AIDS.

Ryan White was diagnosed with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1984 at the age of 13, after he became ill with severe and unusual case of pneumonia. Ryan had a genetic condition called hemophilia, which resulted in poor clotting. To treat his hemophilia, he received a clotting factor made from the blood pooled from many donors. Some of this blood was infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and he became infected.

Ryan White was one of over 25 milion people who have died from AIDS since the disease was first recognized in 1981. HIV likely claimed its first victims in Africa, perhaps in the 1930’s, and probably reached the United States around 1970.

The Origin of The Virus
Many pathogens got their start infecting other animals before they crossed the species gap to humans. HIV is an example of just such a pathogen. The virus we now call HIV likelt originated in chimpanzees in Cameroon in west-central Africa. The chimpanzees virus, called SIV (Simian immunodeficiency virus-chimpanzee), is an amalgamation of two other SIV viruses from red-capped mangabeys and greater spot-nosed monkeys. The current hypothesis is that chimpanzees simultaneously became infected with these two SIVs, leading to the development of SIV. This may have happened when chimpanzees ate SIV-infected red-capped mangabeys and greater spot-nosed monkeys. The viruses then combined in the dually infected chimpanzees, and produced a hybrid virus that was now capable of infecting both chimpanzees and humans. This virus establishes an infection but does not cause a noticeable disease in chimpanzees. However, the hybrid chimpanzee virus was apparently able to grow in human cells, and mutate to the point where it was able to cause disease in humans.

Prevention of HIV/AIDS
1.      Protecting the blood supply
2.      Needle exchange
3.      Behavioral interventions
4.      Condoms
5.      Circumcision
6.      Vaginal microbiocides
7.      Post exposure prophylaxis
8.      Pre exposure prophylaxis
9.      Preventing transmission during pregnancy and childbirth

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