Unit 3 A healthy life Section Ⅳ Learning about Language amp;Using Language[原文呈现][读文清障] HIV/AIDS: ARE YOU AT RISK①
HIV② is a virus
A virus is a very small living thing that causes disease
There are many different viruses, for example, the flu virus or the SARS③ virus
HIV weakens a person's immune④ system; that is, the part of the body that fights disease
You can have HIV in your blood for a long time, but eventually HIV will damage your immune system so much that your body can no longer fight disease
This stage of the illness is called AIDS⑤
If you develop AIDS, your chances⑥ of survival⑦ are very small
HIV is spread through blood or the fluid⑧ that the body makes during sex⑨
For a person to become infected⑩, blood or sexual fluid that carries the virus, has to get inside the bo