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Q. AIDS was first reported in

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AIDS is Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome. It is not a congenital disease it is acquired during the lifetime of an individual and is a deficiency of the immune system. ‘Syndrome’ refers to a group of symptoms. It is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which is a member of a group of viruses called a retrovirus. AIDS was first reported on June 5, 1981, in California USA, and in the last twenty-five years, it has spread all over the world, killing more than 25 million persons.