Measels and HIV:

Question 1

What are both HIV and Measles caused by?

Answer 1

• Viruses.

Question 2

Facts for viruses?

Answer 2

• Example of a pathogen.

- Viruses cannot be killed by antibiotics.

Question 3

What are measles?

Answer 3

1st symptom: Fever.

After around 3 days: Patient develops a red skin rash.

Question 4

How are measles spread?

Answer 4

• In droplets when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
• ## Passes into a different person when the droplets are inhaled.

Question 5

What happens if complications occur?

Answer 5

• • Causes damage to breathing system.
• And the brain.
• Sever cases measles can be fatal so most children are vaccinated agaisnt measels when very young age.

Question 6

What is HIV?

Answer 6

1st symptom is a flu like illness.
Virus attacks the cells of the patients immune system.
- Overtime immune system becomes severly damaged.
- To a certain extent it becomes so damaged: Cannot fight of inefctions people could ewasily deal with.
- Unable to fight off cancer cells.

Question 7

What happens when the immune system reaches this highly damaged state?

Answer 7

• Easily contract other infectious diseases:
• TB.
  + may develop cancer.
• Late-Stage HIV or AIDS= fatal.

Question 8

How do we treat HIV?

Answer 8

• Antiretrovival drugs.
• Stops virus from multiplying in the patient.
• So virus does not damage the patients immune system.
• DO NOT DEVELOP AIDS
• Can lead normal life expectancy.

Question 9

What is the disadvantage of antiretroviral drugs?

Answer 9

• Is not a cure for HIV or AIDS>
• ## Patient must take these drugs for the rest of their life.

Question 10

How does HIV spread?

Answer 10

• Exchange of fluids between humans.
• Spread by unprotected sexual intercourse.
• Drug users share infected needles: blood containing HIV can pass in the needle from one person to another.