BIOL 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Miami 7, Black Death, T Helper Cell
5 Sep 2018
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Discovery and origin of hiv/aids: aids: a global pandemic: the first plague in the era of globalization. This year is the 37th anniversary since the first reported case of aids. Since 1981 (first case reported in california), and by the end of 2017, about 77 million people have been infected with hiv, of which 35 million will have died by the end of. 2016 this number will keep on increasing: surpassed black plague, surpassed the flu; will go down in history as one of the worst pandemics; hiv/aids, malaria, and tuberculosis are the top three worst. Today, 37 million people are infected worldwide: 17. 1 million do not know they are infected. People are u(cid:374)edu(cid:272)ated, sy(cid:373)pto(cid:373)s (cid:272)a(cid:374) re(cid:373)ai(cid:374) hidde(cid:374), people do(cid:374)"t get tested. Nearly 5,000 new infections occur worldwide every day, with about 1. 8 million new infections reported in 2017 and 900,000 deaths from aids in 2017. 50-52% of infections today are in women: a global pandemic cont.
