Answer:
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is
caused by the Human immunodeficiency Virus or HIV. A person can be infected
with HIV but not acquire AIDS. It is designated as a syndrome and not a disease
as a group of health problems are its characteristic AIDS causes individuals to
become susceptible to bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections.
Individuals also exhibit increased rates of cancers like lymphomas.
Technically, a syndrome can be defined as a group of
symptoms that are characteristic of a
disorder or disease (but it may be due to multiple diseases or no
disease, e.g., an accident). A disease however is a disorder of a specific
organ or body system that arises from heredity, infection, environmental
causes, etc.
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