Programme 3: AIDS - 1. ČÁST

HIV refers to the virus, the thing that actually causes the disease. AIDS refers to the disease itself, the set of symptoms which the patient has. Richard Black The disease was discovered first. It was then called a syndrome. What happened was that patients were turning up with a certain collection of symptoms, and when doctors see this but they don't know what's causing the set of symptoms, they call this a syndrome. The people were obviously suffering from an immune system that was not working properly. And it was obviously something that was not inherited, they were picking it up, they were acquiring it - hence Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Only later on did scientists find out what was actually causing this - and this is HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus. VOCABULARY disease - nemoc syndrome - syndrom, souhrn různých příznaků turning up - objevovat se, přicházet symptoms - symptomy, příznaky immune - imunní, imunitní deficiency - nedostatek virus - virus, vir acquire - získat