Question

AIDS is considered a syndrome and not a disease.
Give reasons.

Answer 1

Syndrome vs Disease:

1. When a group of symptoms occurs together in the existence of a particular disease, it is known as a syndrome.
2. Disease is a pathological condition that has some specific symptoms.

AIDS:

1. It is a series of symptoms caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
2. AIDS ( Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) was first recognized in 1981.
3. A person is said to have AIDS when his/her immune system is too weak to fight off infection and there is the development of certain defining symptoms and illnesses.
4. A person with AIDS is prone to various pathogens because the immune system becomes weak. There is no particular symptom of the disease in the preliminary period, symptoms occur after many years of attack of the virus.

For this reason, AIDS is considered a syndrome and not a disease.