Collected your two HW packets
Graded them for correctness (you are welcome to come in the next day to get them back if you want them to study for the test)
We used the rest of class to do the AIDS computer activity (see below for the questions if you still need to complete this for HW)...this is due in TWO classes (Monday for Periods 5 and 6 and Tuesday for period2)!!!!
CH 14 test next class! The study guide will be posted by 10pm tonight! STUDY HARD for this test!!!!
Go to the following website, follow the clicking pathways and answer the following questions!
Use a separate piece of paper!!!
http://www.aids.gov/
HIV/AIDS basics
What is HIV/AIDS?
1. What does HIV stand for?
2. What makes HIV different from most other viruses?
3. What kinds of body cells does the HIV virus tend to attack?
Expand the page and continuing answering the questions.
4. What does AIDS stand for?
5. What is an opportunistic infection as it relates to AIDS?
6. What are three reasons you would be classified as AIDS from HIV.
7. Where do we suspect AIDS originated from?
Click on the yellow box where it says HIV life cycle.
8. How does the AIDS virus spread throughout your body?
Expand the page and continuing answering the questions.
9. What kind of cell is the viruses’ favorite type of cell to infect?
10. What are the six steps the viruses takes in your host cell?
Click the back button and select “stages of HIV” from the yellow box
11. What is an acute infection?
12. What is the viral set point?
13. What are your CD4 levels like after the acute infection stage?
14. What is the clinical latency stage?
15. How long can it last?
16. Why would this be dangerous to people who do not know they are infected?
17. What determines if you are HIV + or have full blown AIDS?
18. What is the survival rate for people with AIDS if they do NOT seek medical attention?
Click on CD4 Cell.
19. Why is it appropriate to use the terms CD4 and T cell interchangeably?
Click on HIV basics at the top of the page
Then click on “how do you get AIDS or HIV”
20. Which body fluids contain the virus?
21. Expand the page
22. What are four ways to transmit the disease?
Click the back button
Click “prevention”
23. How many new people are affected with AIDS each year?
Click the “back” button
Click on signs and symptoms
24. What are the symptoms of the early stages of HIV?
25. What are the symptoms of the chronic or latency stage of HIV?
26. What happens in the late stages of HIV?
Click the “back” button
Then click on “stats”
27. How many people in the US are living with HIV/AIDS
28. How many people have HIV/AIDS and don’t know it?
29. What is the most common age group of new cases of HIV/AIDS?
30. List in order, the people who are most at risk for contracting the disease.
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