Symptoms of AIDS

Symptoms of AIDS may appear years after receiving the virus. The disease initially weakens the immune system slowly in the body without symptoms. In this case, a healthy-looking person may actually be a carrier of the HIV virus; symptoms begin to manifest over time. The HIV virus carrier may not look sick or the carrier may not feel sick. Because it is not the HIV virus itself that causes AIDS symptoms or deaths in carriers, but infections that can occur more easily as the body is completely vulnerable to the collapse of the immune system. An HIV-infected person has symptoms like colds, fever, fatigue and weakness within about 3-4 weeks of receiving the virus.