EPIDEMICS

INTRODUCTION

• How dangerous can an epidemic be to the human species?
• Epidemics can bring awful results, but it can also help develop our medicine.
• An epidemic happens when...

AIDS

• AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is…
• AIDS destroys...
• According to the MMWR…

TREATMENT

• Antiretroviral therapy (ART)…
• Standard ART contains…
• "In 1987, a drug called AZT became the first approved treatment for HIV disease. Since then, approximately 30 drugs have been approved to treat people living with HIV/AIDS,and more are under development." ( Overview of HIV Treatments. (2009, August 7)
• AZT, or azidothymidine/ zidovudine…
• The bad thing about AZT is…

TREATMENT (DEVELOPMENT)

• Right now, there are…
• The point of looking for more antiretrovirals…
• For one of these drugs to be approved…
• In Dresden Technical University researchers found…

CONCLUSION

• Epidemics are…
• Today, we have…
• Seeing medicines develop…