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You don't actually "get" AIDS. You might get infected with HIV, and later you might develop AIDS. You can get infected with HIV from anyone who's infected, even if they don't look sick and even if they haven't tested HIV-positive yet. The blood, vaginal fluid, semen, and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people. Most people get the HIV virus by:
* having sex with an infected person * sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with someone who's infected * being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low.
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∙ 6y agoYou can get aids through one of four ways: sexually, through blood or blood product, mother to child, or through multiple infection.
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Is there HIV virus in fingernails of infected person?
HIV is not in fingernails.
Is hiv infectious or non infectious?
HIV is an infectious virus. It can be passed from person to person.
IF a person is injected with HIV would they have it?
If injected with the virus HIV, they would be infected.
In What kind of body fluid HIV virus is not present?
Saliva has no Aids or HIV in an infected person but everything else can spread the virus.
Can you kiss a person who has HIV and AIDS?
No you will not as saliva does not have enough virus in it to transmit.
Can non infected gay people get HIV?
Yes, non-infected people (gay or straight) can contract the HIV virus if they are exposed to the HIV virus from another person.
Is there HIV in semen?
You get the HIV virus from semen. HIV is the virus which causes AIDS. It passes from one person to another through having sex, or by sharing drug needles. When a new person gets HIV the virus gradually multiplies in the body (unless it is stopped with medication). AIDS is more like a weakness of the immune system. If the HIV virus load is very high in a person, then it is easy for them to catch pneumonia and other diseases. For a fit person these diseases are easily cured, but for a person with this weak immune system they are very dangerous and can be fatal.
Does HIV or AIDS Virus kill the person who is infected?
It Could
What do antibodies to the aids virus indicate?
Antibodies to the AIDS virus indicates the person is HIV positive.
Can you get HIV from?
when you had sex with a person who has the virus, when you have sex with different partners and if you used a syringe or infused with blood that came from a person having HIV.
Can people be infected with HIV but not exhibit AIDS?
No. In order to have the disease known as AIDS (which is not a virus itself, but a syndrome), a person needs to be infected by the HIV virus. It is the HIV virus that causes AIDS.
Can a person have HIV and not be affected by it in other words only as a carrier?
No; if you have the infection, you are affected by the HIV virus.
