HLTB21H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Pentamidine, Immunodeficiency, Pneumocystis Jirovecii
11 Dec 2012
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Chapter 5: a modern plague, aids page 89 115. According to world health organization (who), aids afflicts 15 million people and occurs both in developed and less developed countries. In 1981, 12 cases in u. s. , 1994 there were 400 000 cases, now maybe more than 1 million cases. Worldwide, in 1992, it was estimated that 12. 9m were infected. Twelve years later = 30-40m and 18m dead by aids. Since 1999, 15 000 new infections every day. Aids started in 1981 where around 10 000 were infected worldwide by the virus: human immunodeficiency (hiv). At first, he noticed that these were not people with the criteria for pcp; instead they were young, male, and homosexual. The appearance of a rare cancer of the skin and blood vessels that were signalled by a red-purple blotching of the skin, called kaposi"s sarcoma. At that time, the syndrome was called grid (gay-related immune deficiency).
