... was in the year 1980s. A high percentage of gay men in New York City and California were starting to develop a certain rare opportunistic infection and a cancer. Treatment for the disease was futile. Around that time aids didn't have its name just yet. But it became know that all the men were suffering ... a rare opportunistic infection occur in people who have a much compromised immune systems. After all that an unexpected number of homosexual men started to develop skin cancer that is quite rare called Kaposi or KS for short. There were so many more cases of PCP and KS emerging that th...

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... marijuana is illegal, people have shown that it has been very beneficial to them. It has been used to aid people who suffer from various diseases. It helps AIDS and cancer patients surpass pain, vomiting, nausea, and boosts their eating habits. Marijuana also helps people who have glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and spasticity (American Medical Association). It improves the environment ( ... an appetite stimulant. According to Joni Commons, a deputy director of the county's health services, "smoking pot was the only thing that relieved her otherwise constant nausea from chemotherapy treat...

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... having unprotected sex, sharing needles, be given to a baby from its mother, or through any type of blood transfusion. The HIV virus is carried through blood, semen, vaginal fluid, and breast milk. Although people think this is true , you can not receive HIV, or AIDS by kissing, hugging, tears, sweat, feces, or urine. Blood has the highest content of the virus ... , followed by semen, vaginal fluid, and finally breast milk. Breast milk has a low content of the virus that may not be harful to adults, but to babys it is a higher risk. Symtoms of HIV and AIDS are hard to recongize ... . Whe...

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... 't even know they have it. HIV attacks the Immune system which leaves the body vulnerable to common bacteria and parasites turning them into threatening illnesses and sometimes cancer. HIV has been found in Saliva, tears, nervous system tissue, blood, semen, vaginal fluid and breast milk. HIV is a blood born pathogen and can only be transmitted through transferable blood, semen, vaginal fluid and ... breast milk. HIV and AIDS are transmitted mostly through sexual contact, blood, and mother to child. A mother infected with the virus has a 75% chance of passing it on to ... the child thro...

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... off by a properly functioning immune system, and it is the diseases, the opportunistic infections, caused by these outside agents that eventually kill the victim; or, death results from a form of cancer, Kaposi's sarcoma, that is far more aggressive in AIDS patients than among those who do not suffer from AIDS. Thus, one can say that AIDS killed the person, since the ... the cities and came into contact with previously unexposed and vulnerable populations. AIDS has been found in Saliva , tears, nervous system, blood,semen,vaginal fluid and breast milk. However, only blood, semen, vagina...

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... his retirement. Alzado exposed that he had beaten his wife due to steroid-induced rages, and he also spoke about how his lifetime use of steroids brought upon fatal brain cancer. He spent the final months of his life speaking out about the dangers of anabolic steroids (Lovitch). There are many other adverse effects of anabolic steroids besides the brain ... cancer that Alzado suffered from. Alan Leshner,director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, claims, Those young people think they're building better bodies, but at the same time, when ... . The reversible effects of steroids in...

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... . The time between infection to becoming symptomatic with a disease is called incubation period. The incubation period is long as eleven years. The cause of that is in all cases pneumonia cancer or infection with bacteria and viruses. Routes of transmission The chart represents primary routes of transmission of the AIDS virus. The largest single group is still male to male sexual ... person, by needle-sharing among injecting drug users, or, less commonly, through transfusions of infected blood. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth, through breast-f...

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... relations with another person they could very possibly contract this disease. The four ways in which we know this virus can be contracted is through blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. In this day and age we don't need to worry so much about blood transfusion because now they test blood donors for AIDS or the virus causing AIDS, HIV ... but are only for the beginning symptoms of HIV and not anything further then that. AIDS could very well be one of the scariest diseases of this century. Along with cancer, the way that it affects people and the numbers at which is does so ...

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... York City in 1980 and 1981. The doctors recognized the condition as something new because all the patients were previously healthy, young homosexual men suffering from otherwise rare forms of cancer and pneumonia. The name AIDS was adopted in 1982. Scientists soon determined that AIDS occurred when the immune system became damaged, and that the agent that caused the damage was ... users should seek help to stop taking drugs and should never share needles, syringes, or other injection equipment. Also, women during pregnancy and labor to their newborn babies should not breast feed their i...

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