AIDS By Adam Hans A virus is the smallest particle that consists of a nucleic acid and it attacks your cells just like the Aids virus. They can not replicate themselves it must use a host cell. For instance, if we were to catch a cold our cells would be the host cells. They attach to the host cell and insert their DNA/RNA and then the host cell replicates the virus. Acquired Immune Deficiency …showed first 75 words of 320 total…

…showed last 75 words of 320 total…below 200. We cannot kill the AIDS virus because the virus uses host cells to infect the body. These host cells cannot be depicted from our other uninfected cells, therefore in order to kill them, we would have to kill our own healthy cells. So the only logical, efficient way to stop the AIDS virus is to innervate it before it infects our cells. The way to do this is with the use of a vaccine.