Could someone give me some brief history of HIV for my biology class?

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shrutipande9 · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV This is the best u can get....

anonymous · Answer

could you describe some information in your own words?

shrutipande9 · Answer

sure....see HIV is human immunodeficiency virus. it infects the helper Tcells of our immune system

shrutipande9 · Answer

HIV causes AIDS which is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome...this causes failure in the individuals immune system.

shrutipande9 · Answer

once the immune system is affected all other disease causing agents gain an entry in the body...because our immune system fails to fight back.

shrutipande9 · Answer

this is called opportunistic infection...and ultimately leads to death.

shrutipande9 · Answer

HIV is a retrovirus. spherical and has 2 copies of ss-RNA

shrutipande9 · Answer

i guess this would be pretty enough for the start...

anonymous · Answer

okay in your own words can you also describe the history of it? lie the past? of what it once was before it spread to humans? just a small paragraph, in your own words please?

shrutipande9 · Answer

sure....Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are believed to have originated in non-human primates in West-central Africa and to have transferred to humans.HIV-1 appears to have originated in southern Cameroon through the evolution of SIV, a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) that infects wild chimpanzees

anonymous · Answer

okay and is this in your own words?

shrutipande9 · Answer

these are my words....but info is all from wikipedia.

anonymous · Answer

okay!

anonymous · Answer

thanks so much:)