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Why is AIDS a fatal disease? Why is it considered to be a syndrome and not a disease?

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AIDS is a type of illness caused by HIV infection. AIDS is an acute fatal disease. AIDS is considered as a syndrome because it is a group of symptoms. It is because due to AIDS our immune system also gets affected by many other diseases and the immune system becomes weak that it is vulnerable to any pathogen. It is also a fatal disease because it weakens the immune system and the body will be prone to a lot of communicable diseases which lasts for a lifetime and leads to death.


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