1. HIV/AIDS 6 th Grade Central Bucks School District

6. How many white blood cells are their in this picture?

8. They also signal T cells that the body is being attacked. Then the T cells signal other white blood cells to form antibodies. An antibody is another substance that helps the body fight disease. Each antibody recognizes just one kind of germ. Once locked to an antibody, a germ can no longer attack the body.

9. Most of the time, white blood cells are able to destroy the germs, and the body then flushes the dead germs out of the bloodstream

11. When the AIDS viruses enter a person’s body the viruses attack T cells and macrophages, the very cells that should get rid of the viruses.

13. As the immune system weakens, the body of the infected person begins to show symptoms of infections it can’t control. The immune system is no longer able to fight off germs. Complete Questions and Answers on page 6 Photo courtesy National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is shown budding out of a human immune cell.

20. Can you get HIV/AIDS from hugging, kissing, or sharing eating utensils? If both kissers have open sores or cuts in the mouth, it is possible for one to infect the other with various germs. However, passing the AIDS virus this way has not been reported. This is considered a remote possibility, but not a probability of passing the AIDS virus. There are no reported cases of family members becoming infected by kissing, hugging, and sharing eating utensils when caring for persons with AIDS.

24. Opportunistic diseases take advantage of weakened immune systems. These include… Kaposi’s sarcoma , a kind of skin cancer Pneumocystis carinii , a kind of pneumonia Cryptosporidiosis , an intestinal parasite that causes extreme diarrhea Candidiasis , a fungus that coats the inside of the throat as hard, white patches of growth

29. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/reports/hiv3rddecade/chapter1.htm

30. Complete page 11 in your packet.