HIV is contagious. In the U.S., an estimated 1.2 million people had HIV at the end of 2019, according to the most recent federal data. HIV is passed by bodily fluids, primarily through unprotected ...

HIV/AIDS remains a major public health threat worldwide, with an estimated 39.9 million people living with the disease at the ...

Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The ...

New research in Africa suggests that the AIDS virus is getting smarter about evading the immune system while evolving into a less contagious and less lethal infection overall.. In the country of ...

The virus that causes AIDS — HIV — destroys T-cells, key soldiers of the immune system that fight germs. The new disease doesn't affect those cells, but causes a different kind of damage.

Deadliest Contagious Diseases By Death Toll. Comparison point: As of Sept. 7, the number of reported deaths in the current Ebola epidemic is 2,218. HIV/AIDS: 1.6 million deaths Even though HIV ...

A variant of HIV that is faster at progressing to serious illness and more contagious than other versions of the virus has been circulating in the Netherlands for decades, researchers have found.

Rand Paul tells me Ebola more transmitable than AIDS. “If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they’re contagious and you can catch it.” — Ashley Killough (@KilloughCNN) October 16, 2014 ...

This doctor says violence is contagious, and we should treat it like a disease Battling violence in the US may not be so different than fighting AIDS in Africa October 2, 2015 More than 9 years ago ...

Reported story on the social media meme calling COVID-19 "airborne AIDS," and why it's not fully accurate. Despite blunting the immune system, ... SARS-2 is also extremely contagious, ...