At this age, the cottontails still cannot live without motherâs milk. 3 day old cottontail (right) next to 14 day old cottontail (left) Seven to Nine Days Old: Similar to a 4-5 day old cottontail, there should not be too much difference at this stage. Eyes should be beginning to open and may look like little slits.
In doing so, the virus destroys the ability of the infected cells to do their job in the immune system. The body then loses the ability to fight many infections. When a person with HIV has an extremely low number of CD4 cells or certain rare infections, doctors call this stage of disease AIDS.
However, HIV is able to reproduce itself a thousand times faster than any other virus. <br /> Once the cell is overused, the viruses EXPLODES out of it, ready to attack other T-cells. Ironically the cells which are supposed to fight infection against the body are the very ones which destroy it. Once HIV succeeds in getting into the human body, it immediately searches for the T-cells.