ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immunodeficiency, Medical Anthropology, Indep
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Pop"s were able to carry it at low rates w/o it exploding. Copies go up but then immune syst. tries to fight but it can"t fight completely (decrease in. Once hiv has gotten to the late stage you get aids (is not a virus; is an organizational. Hiv gets inside hosts (immune cells is preferred); locks on, injects rna, hijecks rna to. *must have 10 references (marks docked); anthro. sources must be written (minimum 3) Some people are born that way w/o immune syst. (congenital immune deficiency), drugs for organ transplant suppress immune system,; hiv/aids is acquired. 30, 000 years ago it emerged in primates. ); life in the village is over *the origins of aids: pepin - Sub-saharan africa, russia and some of the former soviet states, switzerland. Congo and middle africa - lower rates; ca lower than us - why this global distribution? (only spinal surgery though)
