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RE: HIV/AIDS: could disarming be the cure?

in #steemstem7 years ago

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and over time acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).[1][2] AIDS is a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype.[3] In most cases, HIV is a sexually transmitted infection and occurs by contact with or transfer of blood, pre-ejaculate, semen, and vaginal fluids. Non-sexual transmission can occur from an infected mother to her infant through breast milk.[4][5][6] An HIV-positive mother can transmit HIV to her baby both during pregnancy and childbirth due to exposure to her blood or vaginal fluid.[7] Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells.

Your first paragraph (By the way, this part was actually copied from wikipedia, not from your post) is nearly word for word wikipedia and contains 16.8% of your work (148 words of a total of 880)

HIV continues to be a major global public health issue, having claimed more than 35 million lives so far. In 2016, 1.0 million people died from HIV-related causes globally.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) targets the immune system and weakens people's defence systems against infections and some types of cancer. As the virus destroys and impairs the function of immune cells, infected individuals gradually become immunodeficient. Immune function is typically measured by CD4 cell count.
Immunodeficiency results in increased susceptibility to a wide range of infections, cancers and other diseases that people with healthy immune systems can fight off.

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Dropping your entire post into a plagiarism detector brings up red flags all over the place, you cannot just reference something that you copy something from. Referencing means you took some information from that source and expanded on it, usually with the inclusion of another source. Copy and pasting is a form of plagiarism.

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