21. AIDS-- acquired immune deficiency syndrome -- attacks the body's immune system, leaving victims susceptible to infection and cancer. 22. Petit-Frere suffered fever and diarrhea and is believed to have died of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome . 23. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) is the fifth-leading cause of death in the working-age population.24. Another 97 have full blown AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , and the rest have asymptomatic infection. 25. NIH funded the basic research on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( HIV / AIDS ), for example. 26. They claimed the drug, tested on 12 human patients, reversed the effects of acquired immune deficiency syndrome . 27. There was no confirmation that the dead kidnapper had the virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome . 28. AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome , is sparked by the HIV virus, which attacks the body's immune system. 29. But Adleman's idea, published in 1993 in The Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome , was largely ignored. 30. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome has become the Black Plague of the 20th century, killing and affecting millions.
