The AIDS Virus In the world today, there are many seriously disruptive diseases. One such disease is a well known virus. This virus has caused many questions to be raised. It is called the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or AIDS for short. The AIDS virus can be passed from person to person by sharing needles, by blood transfusions, or by intimate sexual contact. The virus impairs the human body's immune system which, consequently, leaves the victim to die of normally treatable infections. The most common one is pneumonia. When it was identified in 1981, "there were only 189 cases reported to the Centers for Disease Control" (Cozic