Identifying the Difference: Why AIDS is Unlike Other Diseases
The odd one out is AIDS.
The other four are all infectious diseases that are caused by pathogens (plague by bacteria, malaria by protozoans, measles by a virus, and cold by a virus). AIDS is not caused by a pathogen, but by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which attacks the immune system.
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