Ayden M. Edgar
Mackintosh Academy
Abstract
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a dangerous virus that creates an inefficiency in your immune system. This is bad because then it makes it super easy for the body to get infected because of the lack of helper CD4 T-cells. HIV is the cause of many death in the world and there is still no cure. Without our Immune cells our daily functions, like getting a paper cut could grow an infection and then result in an amputated finger if the infection gets really bad.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that uses you T-cells in your immune system as a hatchery for billions of exact replicas of the cell that infected the T-cell. To infect a T-cell the HIV must first connect to the CD4 receptors on the T-cells using gp120 and gp4 receptors. After a …show more content…
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