Question

why AIDS called a syndrome and not a diseasea?

Answer 1

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AIDS is an acronym that stands forAcquired Immune DeficiencySyndrome. AIDS is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV. A person can be infected with HIV but not have AIDS. AIDS is designated as a syndrome since a group of health problems are characteristic of the disease. AIDS causes individuals to become susceptible to bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections. Individuals also exhibit increased rates of cancers like lymphomas. Technically, a syndrome can be defined as a group of symptoms that are characteristic of a disorder or disease (but it may be due to multiple diseases or no disease, e.g. an accident). A disease however is more crisply defined as a disorder of a specific organ or body system that arises from heredity, infection, environmental causes, etc. Sometimes these terms become blurred and are used interchangeably. 



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Answer 2

My ans is here....
..As we know syndrome is a collection of symptoms or problems in the body.Because of the immune system is damaged and cannot fight off the disease, people will get a collection of symptoms which is reffered as the Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

so it is a syndrome not a disease.
I hope this may help u...