Posted: Oct 17, 2016 11:39 pm
igorfrankensteen wrote: HIV is the disease. AIDS was the SYNDROME (that's what the S stands for). SYNDROME in this case, means a collection of symptoms which the person giving it a label, believes has a single cause, but it is a cause which they have not yet identified.
Since we're being pedantic here, HIV isn't the disease either, it's the causative organism, the human immunodeficiency virus. The disease is HIV infection, although it's an unwieldy name, and HIV, AIDS, and HIV/AIDS are all used loosely at times. Thanks for your explanation
