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 |  Subject: What's the difference between HIV & AIDS  Sun Sep 20, 2009 9:54 am | |
| You don't know until you've got it.  |
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| | Subject: Re: What's the difference between HIV & AIDS Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:16 pm | |
| I think it's crazy that people today still have a weird notion about this disease. You'd think we'd be better educated. |
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| | Subject: Re: What's the difference between HIV & AIDS Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:28 pm | |
| As if I didn't know & by the way..........for the regular nursing department.......it's not a f***ing disease............. |
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| | Subject: Re: What's the difference between HIV & AIDS Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:31 pm | |
| you asked a question peggy all theyve done is reply love _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: What's the difference between HIV & AIDS Tue Sep 22, 2009 1:57 am | |
| | Peggy wrote: | | As if I didn't know & by the way..........for the regular nursing department.......it's not a f***ing disease............. |
My mistake...infection there is a difference. |
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| | Subject: Re: What's the difference between HIV & AIDS Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:26 pm | |
| Given these definitions, HIV is an infection, AIDS is a disease. dis⋅ease
/dɪˈziz/ Pronunciation [di-zeez] noun, verb, -eased, -eas⋅ing.
–noun
1. a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
2. any abnormal condition in a plant that interferes with its vital physiological processes, caused by pathogenic microorganisms, parasites, unfavorable environmental, genetic, or nutritional factors, etc.
3. any harmful, depraved, or morbid condition, as of the mind or society: His fascination with executions is a disease.
4. decomposition of a material under special circumstances: tin disease.
–verb (used with object)
5. to affect with disease; make ill.
in⋅fec⋅tion
/ɪnˈfɛkʃən/ Pronunciation [in-fek-shuhn]
–noun
1. an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
2. an infecting with germs of disease, as through the medium of infected insects, air, water, or clothing.
3. an infecting agency or influence.
4. an infectious disease: Is this infection very dangerous?
5. the condition of suffering an infection.
6. corruption of another's opinions, beliefs, moral principles, etc.; moral contamination.
7. an influence or impulse passing from one to another and affecting feeling or action.
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| | Subject: Re: What's the difference between HIV & AIDS Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:51 pm | |
| HIV is zero positiveity which means the person is infected with the HIV virus. It does not mean aids. Aids is the full blown disease. The timescale between the two could be years. |
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