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AIDS is a disorder in which the immune m...

AIDS is a disorder in which the immune mechanism of the body of a patient gets suppressed.
a. What pathogen is responsible for it?
b. Who discovered the pathogen for the first time?
c. Mention the major symptoms of that disorder.

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a. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
b. Prof. Luc Montagnier in 1983
c. Fever, weight loss, diarrhoea, enlargement of lymph glands. All these are due to low immune response.
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