Outbreak Essays

Introduction The Center for Disease Control (CDC) published the first case of what later came to be termed acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the United States in June 1981 in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) (Gong, Xu & Han, 2017). In the article, the CDC described cases of rare lung infections among five ... Read More

AIDS stands for Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. AIDS is a communicable disease caused by the virus known as HIV ((human immunodeficiency virus). After the infection, HIV advances in stages, destroying the immune system and advancing to AIDS. HIV does not have a cure; however, the virus is slowed down to prevent it from progressing from one ... Read More