BPK 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Myelin, Sub-Saharan Africa, Viral Meningitis
12 May 2016
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The person with aids (pwa) will most likely die from pneumocystis carnii pneumonia, Kaposi"s sarcoma (a skin cancer), or brain infection. Lets take a closer look at the induced encephalitis. The jc virus is present and dormant in about. When the immune system is weakened, the jc virus can multiply and cause encephalitis as well as destroy myelin. Gastrointestinal problems arise because the particular type of cd4 lymphocyte that hiv attacks is present in a much greater amount in intestinal mucosa than in blood for example: aids in canada. There are over 60,000 canadians suffering from aids and the median age of symptoms is now. 24 rather than 30 as it was in the 1980"s. In the late 80s mostly gay men were infected. Currently, 25 % of aids cases are women. Aids rates are increasing most in woman, young gay men, aboriginals, and injecting drug users (idu). You have to take 30 pills/day: some with food and some without.
