HIV
/ AIDS symptoms are SPUR's: Severe, Persistent,
Unusual, Recurrent infections.
1 month after picking up HIV, flu-like symptoms
develop temporarily such as:
Fever
Sore throat
Malaise
Muscle aches
Rash
Lymph
nodes you can feel as marbles under your skin.
Then it dissappears within a few weeks and for the next 8 years there are no obvious symptoms. You feel well
and do not realize you are infected until the SPURs begin. Symptoms of AIDS
include:
Fever
Weight
loss
Loss
of Appetite
Night
Sweats
Unusual
and severe infections
such as thrush of the mouth, Kaposi's skin cancer - purple skin
plaques, pneumonias, skin infections, diarrhea.
Recurrence
of these infections despite treatment.
Eventually a victim's white blood cell count winds down so low that
they are unable to fight the simplest of infections and they
suffer bad infections from bugs you normally would dismiss as harmless.
