Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Humoral Immunity, Viral Load, Blood Transfusion

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazlewood

Document Summary

Part 1: a brief history of aids and hiv. First cases of unusual syndrome: found in ny, san francisco. Rare diseases (like kaposi"s sarcoma a rare skin cancer) Syndrome is named: acquired immune deiciency syndrome (aids) Part 2: epidemiology of aids: correlates of original 50 cases: interviewed irst 50 cases to ind correlates, all of them are gay men, used drug (amyl nitrate) to enhance sex. Many gay men who use the drug didn"t show signs of. So the drug wasn"t the cause: muliple sexual partners. Gaetan dugas (2500 sexual partners in the previous 10 years): a canadian light atendant who was the common sexual partner to many of the known aids cases interviewed. 40 of the known aids paients directly linked to him. He eventually died of aids: but: other transmission routes, aids is caused by an infecious agent (transmited through exchange of body luids), 1984: aids retrovirus (arv) isolated. Has be to smaller than a bacterium or fungus.