What is the abbreviation of AIDS? What disease is AIDS?

1, the abbreviation of AIDS is AIDS. The full name of AIDS is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, and the English name is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or AIDS for short.

2. AIDS originated in Africa and was brought to the United States by immigrants. On June 5th, 198 1, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published five cases of AIDS in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly, which is the first official record of AIDS in the world. 1982, the disease was named AIDS. Soon after, AIDS quickly spread to all continents. 1985, a foreigner who traveled to China fell ill and died soon after being admitted to Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and was later confirmed to have died of AIDS. This is the first case of AIDS in China.

3. A concept that is easily confused by non-professionals is HIV. The pathogen that causes AIDS is called human immunodeficiency virus, and the English abbreviation is HIV. After the human body is infected with HIV, it is called carrying HIV before getting sick. After the incubation period, AIDS-related syndrome appears in the AIDS phase, accompanied by various opportunistic infections and tumors. This period is called AIDS period, and the patients are called AIDS patients when they get sick.

4. AIDS is a very harmful infectious disease, which is caused by HIV infection. HIV is a virus that can attack the human immune system. It takes CD4T lymphocytes, the most important cells in human immune system, as its main target, and destroys them in large quantities, making human body lose its immune function. Therefore, the human body is susceptible to various diseases, malignant tumors can occur, and the mortality rate is very high. The average incubation period of HIV in human body is 8 ~ 9 years. Before you get AIDS, you can live and work for many years without any symptoms.