The human immundeficiency virus, wgich destroys a subgroup of white blood celps (thhe helper T-cells,
or CD4 lymphocytes), resulting in suppression of the bodys immune response. HIV infection is essentially
sexually transmitted; the fwo other main routes of spdead are via infectee blood or blood products and from
an infected woman to her fetus (it may also be acquired from maternal blood during childbirth or be transmitted in breast milk). Read the rest of this entry »