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What are the symptoms of AIDS?
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Symptoms of AIDS:
The following symptoms have been defined by WHO.
- Weight loss at least 10% body weight.
- Chronic diarrhoea for more than a month.
- Prolonged fever for more than one month.
- Night sweats and persistent coughs.
- Opportunistic infection such as tuberculosis, oropharyngeal candidiasis. (fungal infection in mouth and throat).
- Recurrent herpes zoster (viral) infection.
- Meningitis and nerve damage.
- Loss of memory and intelligence.
- Unusual cancer, kaposis sarcoma which produces scattered purplish lesions over the chest and abdomen.
The following symptoms have been defined by WHO.
- Weight loss at least 10% body weight.
- Chronic diarrhoea for more than a month.
- Prolonged fever for more than one month.
- Night sweats and persistent coughs.
- Opportunistic infection such as tuberculosis, oropharyngeal candidiasis. (fungal infection in mouth and throat).
- Recurrent herpes zoster (viral) infection.
- Meningitis and nerve damage.
- Loss of memory and intelligence.
- Unusual cancer, kaposis sarcoma which produces scattered purplish lesions over the chest and abdomen.
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