When someone has an autoimmune disease, their immune system mistakenly attacks their own healthy cells and tissues.
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What Is AIDS?
However, if left untreated, HIV could progress to its final stage: AIDS.
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Symptoms of AIDS may include:
These symptoms can, however, also be the result of other illnesses.
That protein is called an antibody.
Most notably, this triggers when a fetus receives antibodies that are transferred through the placenta.
After its born, an infant typically has these antibodies for between 6 and 12 months.
AIDS, however, is an immunodeficiency disorder.
This is also known as immunosuppression.
While AIDS and autoimmune diseases both affect the immune system, they do so in two different ways.
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