Thursday, December 1, 2011

Apart from sharing needles how does HIV/AIDS start

Apart from sharing needles how does HIV/AIDS start?

Infectious Diseases - 9 Answers
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1 :
unprotected sex
2 :
from having unprotected sex, either male/male or male/female. blood transfusions, tho nowadays there are checks in place to prevent this.
3 :
Monkeys
4 :
By HIV infected blood entering your bloodstream, so via needle-sharing, sex, blood transfusions (but not through kissing, swimming pools, sharing tableware or other normal social interaction).
5 :
Sharing of body fluids: sexual contact, blood in eyes or mouth or open wounds-- there are a lot of ways hypothesized, but most have very low risk potential. It's not proven you can get it from tears, mosquito bites and other small-volume transfers.
6 :
1. unprotected sex 2. tainted blood transfusions 3. could be passed on to the child by the mother if she is carrying the virus
7 :
This is from the site linked below, "HIV is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, by sharing needles and/or syringes (primarily for drug injection) with someone who is infected, or, less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth." There is much more information at the CDC site linked below.
8 :
Oh wow! It could start from anything sexual since it is transmitted throuh bodily fluids.

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