Question #1b389
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“AIDS” is a general condition description. “HIV” is a specific causative virus.
Explanation:
“AIDS” stands for Auto Immune Deficiency Syndrome”. That is a very general description for an effect – the failure of an immune sytem – that focused on the observed results before any specific cause was know.
“HIV” stands for “Human Immunodeficiency Virus”. That is a very specific (although mutatable) organism found after a great deal of research to be the most likely causative factor in AIDS.
It’s like the difference between a “sore throat” or “strep throat” and Streptococcus pneumoniae . One is a general condition statement, and the other is a known causative organism. It is also the cause of pneumonia (another condition description) if it gets into the lungs instead of the throat.
