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The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (also known as HIV) is a deadly virus that attacks the immune system. The immune system is a part of your body that protects your body from virus and foreign organisms. It is made up of white blood cells which fight diseases. The reason I chose this virus is because at least 25% of the people on Earth are suffering from it. When HIV infects the Immune System, this makes it not functions properly. When people are H.I.V- Positive, it slows down the immune system. Your Immune system makes molecules called “antibodies”. These are special because the try to fight H.I.V. The antibodies are one of the symptoms of H.I.V. If a person takes a H.I.V test, it looks for the antibodies, and if a system has them, then the person is H.I.V positive. People can get H.I.V virus in many different ways. One way is sexual contact. Another was is blood-blood contact, for example if a person touches an infected person who is bleeding, they have a very high chance of getting it. If a baby has been born with an infected mother, then that baby has it also. Other ways are an infected woman’s breast milk or in very rare cases, kissing. Kissing is not necessarily a way, however if a person is infected and has open sores in the mouth, the other person has a very high chance of getting it. The HIV virus infects a special type of cell called the T- helper cell. The T-helper cell fights certain unknown