Originally posted by The Chess Express
Did you decide this? If you google “AIDS virus” you’ll find that it is commonly referred to as “the AIDS virus” by medical professionals.
http://news.google.com/news?q=aids+virus&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=nn&oi=newsr
You can have HIV without having AIDS.
You can also have the influenza virus without having the flu. Most people have influenza viruses on them at all times. Usually our immune system takes care of them.[/b]
And they are technically incorrect. So what? They call it the AIDS virus because most people know what AIDS is, and it's easy to say it. However, as I have stated before AIDS is a syndrome not a virus, and a syndrome is characterised by the symptoms. From Answers.com
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"syn·drome (sĭn'drōm'😉 pronunciation
n.
1. A group of
symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease, psychological disorder, or other abnormal condition.
2.
1. A complex of
symptoms indicating the existence of an undesirable condition or quality.
2. A distinctive or characteristic pattern of behavior: the syndrome of conspicuous consumption in wealthy suburbs.
[Greek sundromē, concurrence of symptoms, from sundromos, running together : sun-, syn- + dromos, a running.] "
From now on I shall call the influenza virus the 'sore throat and runny nose virus' in logic of your honour.