A Monkey And His Disease - 1941 Words

A Monkey and His Disease The day of his death was a scary day. His arms turned blue and pale, had tubes going into them to keep him alive; His face turned almost grey but eventually, the disease won this battle. The death certificate said he died of HIV/AIDS complications at approximately 3:32 p.m. The knowledge of HIV/AIDS treatment has progressed over the past sixty years due to scientific advancements making Huxley’s quote: â€Å"But I don t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin,† negative to historical figures but positive to people who are living in the new generation. Finding the origins of AIDS in a chimpanzee traumatically changed society and ever since 1950,†¦show more content†¦This caused the defect of the human’s immune system, making it easier for any person with this disorder to become more susceptible to diseases that people with a healthy immune system usually will not get. Bette Korber created a model which estimated any virus ‘age but since HIV is an unusual virus because it changes its own DNA by mutation and recombination, they could not really find the origin of it which is also why it is so hard to make a vaccine for this virus which is why they only used this machine to find the oldest age of that strain. Ever since the discovery of this, it has been much of a huge commotion. This commotion has been so big, ever since the origin date came about; scientists have been finding ways to cure this disease. The tools created to make medicine for AIDS patients have been very helpful and important to society. Ever since tools were created to make medicine to reduce the symptoms of AIDS, doctors have been doing everything they can to provide patients with the correct care so that they can survive. Due to this, people have gone far enough to the point where they made medicine cheaper and affordable by insurance making it available for many classes of people. â€Å"We won’t see the end of AIDS,† says Gates, in terms of there being no cure therefore it’s not much of a point in not making the medicine cheaper. The tools to cure