Who gave Freddie Mercury aids? The answer is still unknown because there are still speculations regarding his partner Jim Hutton with whom he had been together for around seven years. He had been secretive about his illness for a long time, but later, it had gotten revealed that his partner, who was also later tested positive for ■■■/AIDS, had looked after him in his last days. The time he died in 1990 was when people knew little about the disease.
What is ■■■/AIDS?
■■■ stands for Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome, and AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Both of these terms are used interchangeably. ■■■ causes AIDS, and it is a disorder of the immune system. In this, the immune system is collapsed, and the body is susceptible to many infections simultaneously with no ability to fight back. It becomes life-threatening because the body has too many infections and no protection. It slowly and gradually kills the person.
The disease can be transmitted from one person to another. It falls in the Sexually Transmitted Diseases STD category, which means that it can easily transmit from one person to another through sexual contact. In addition, blood transfusions, pregnant mother to baby or through infected syringes. All these modes can transfer the disease, and the disease can spread at a faster rate. To date, there is no such cure if the disease. Instead, only preventive measures are propagated among people not to contract the disease. Different phases of diseases spread it.
Primary infection (Acute ■■■)
The duration of this phase can be for a few days. These symptoms start after a week. When the virus enters and resembles the flu. The common symptoms are night sweats, cough, weight loss, diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes, sore throat and pain, rash, muscle aches and pain, headache and fever. Being mild, the symptoms may go unnoticed.
Clinical Latent Infection (Chronic ■■■)
This stage is called latent because the symptoms are still not evident. After all, the infection is still in the body and the white blood cells. The phase can persist for years, and it will still go unnoticed.
Symptomatic ■■■
Until this stage, the virus keeps multiplying and destroys the white blood cells. As immunity cells decrease, the body becomes more susceptible to infections. The symptoms that start to appear in this stage are pneumonia, shingles, ■■■■ yeast infection, weight loss, diahrrea, swollen lymph nodes and fatigue.
Progression to AIDS
If ■■■ is diagnosed at the right time, it does not develop into AIDS, mainly due to the antiviral treatment. If ■■■ goes untested, it can turn into AIDS in eight to ten years. This is the time when the immune system is damaged, and a person will catch diseases that a person with a healthy immune system will not occur. The signs are bumps or skin rashes, weight loss, weakness, fatigue, lesions or mouth, swollen lymph glands, chronic diarrhea, recurring fever, chills and sweats.