The purpose of sending this mail to GROUP is to be aware of the nonsense stuff from the net, don’t panic if you find a Needle in the Theater or some threatening note of infection.
It’s good to be well informed about HIV; human immunodeficiency virus. There was a story on junk some days back where it is said that a boy got infected by HIV virus by eating roadside food and there have also been rumors where people are affected by the HIV virus when they got pricked by an HIV infected needle in theaters which is rubbish.
So read along!
HIV; human immunodeficiency virus (virus) requires ONLY Blood or Semen as a medium to transmit from one body to another.
HIV: human immunodeficiency virus cannot transmit even through Saliva (mucous) i.e. even if HIV-infected patient coughs and another person is exposed to his sputum (cough), the virus still cannot transmit because the concentration of virus particles in sputum is almost NIL exposure to air anyway kill the virus in a fraction of seconds.
In case HIV-infected person got an injury (like the cut in below-mentioned story) and he is bleeding, the virus can transmit to another person only if another person has a cut/wound in his body that too when blood from both people comes in contact with each other (this is also very rare unless bleeding is very high) and not otherwise HIV can never survive in any other liquid medium also other than blood or semen. Even if one drinks an HIV infected blood (or semen) of someone (ingest through Gastrointestinal track), the virus cannot survive in the acidic pH of the stomach. Highest extent of acidity is 0 (practically not possible) so imagine 1 as pH which is in our stomach. (This pH can burn your own finger in less than a second if you dip in that acid).
Exposure of less than 1 second in AIR KILLS the HIV virus (hence story of needle pricks in Cinema theaters is a crap). Even if blood from a wound (of an infected person) dries up (blood clot), the virus dies and cannot infect anyone else HIV transmission is ONLY an INFECTION i.e. entrance of virus in one's body. It DOES NOT MEAN AIDS. An HIV-infected person (after the entrance of virus) can progress to the condition of AIDS only after 8 to 10 YEARS (not in 15 days as in the below-mentioned story)
It is not HIV (virus) that kills a human. The virus attacks immune cells (cells that fight against foreign pathogens/ antigens) and hence a person's ability to fight against infections diseases slowly diminishes and the person ultimately dies of a disease which could be as simple as TB Most importantly, HIV is no longer dreadful disease. it is CHRONIC MANAGEABLE DISEASE " just like Diabetes or Hypertension. If there is anything you need to be careful from to prevent HIV is unsafe sex, Blood transfusion (check before taking) / Blood donation (use sterilized needles only) and any blood contact during an accident or so where the amount of bleeding is very high.
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