NOVA Online | Surviving AIDS

Fighting Back
AIDS researchers continue to make progress in battling HIV, addressing the fight with a variety of new and promising approaches...but this NOVA Hot Science isn't about the fight against the AIDS virus.

Fighting Back instead takes a look at the battlefield where the fight takes place, putting you into the world of the immune system.

A mumps virus enters the body, then enters a cell. There it makes copies of itself. How does the immune system respond? It's up to you to figure it out. A play-by-play explanation will follow, as well as an explanation of what makes an attack by the AIDS virus unique...and devastating.

Shockwave version of Fighting Back (288k)
You will need the Shockwave plugin
Download Fighting Back
These will run as mini-applications on your computer:
    Windows 95/98/NT: fbzip9.exe (1.3MB)
    Windows 3.x: fbzip3.exe (1.5MB)
    Macintosh: fightingback.sit.hqx (2MB)

The Windows downloads are self-extracting ZIP archives: double-click the .exe file (fbzip9.exe or fbzip3.exe) to extract the Fighting Back mini-application (fightb95.exe or fightb31.exe), then run the mini-application.
Text version of Fighting Back
You can't play this version, but you do have access to all of the activity's content.