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health advisory Hospital Doctor Yu 2007-11-8 19:08:03

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To begin with? No, but once you contract it, yes it does lower your white blood cell count because it attacks your white blood cells.

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initially they have a normal count, but the ratio of CD4 to CD8 becomes abnormal

as the disease progresses the lymphocyte count decreases as more lymphocytes get infected - thus the WBC comes down

the rest of the white cell ratios remain relatively the same as the HIV does not infect the other white cell types

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Wow, keep the answer simple folks!

HIV attacks the body's immune system. White Blood Cells are part of this system. As the system gets damaged, two things happen. First, fewer white blood cells are made. Second, many of the white blood cells that are made are deformed and thereby unusable.

Hope this helps.

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the person that have HIV have lower WBC when they reach the aids stage because the HIV virus live and replicate inside the WBC and kill the cell before going to infect other WBC cell (CD4+ cells specifically)

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we don die from AIDS,we die from the lack of white blood cells.the HIV attacks the white blood cells which help the body 2 fight infections.the body becomes weak and unable 2 fight diseases.ppl die from the diseases that the body cannot fight.

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