I know from a needle but is that how it is produced and it just gets passed on by sex??
2006-06-13 14:48:53 · 23 answers · asked by babiigiirl 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
By sex. sharing drug needles, blood transfusion
2006-06-13 14:50:31 · answer #1 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aids is transfered through the blood and sexual fluids. You can get it from a needle or sex. It's not produced, it's just passed on. It is a virus that was discovered about 25-30 years ago. It is believed to have morphed and evolved in the 1970's.
2006-06-13 21:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by Maggie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The virus isnt "produced" by anything. Like any virus, it simply exists within a host and gets passed from person to person. The AIDS virus could be contracted by unprotected sex with an infected individual, use of an infected needle, blood transfusions (though not likely today due to the ELISA test, which if anything is oversensitive), and just about anything that would let the virus into your blood stream.
2006-06-13 23:29:11 · answer #3 · answered by nerd_at_heart 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HIV and AIDS is a VIRUS that is transmitted through bodily fluids. Like having unprotected sex or using a syringe that has already been used. The blood transfusion thing is protected now days so there is little chance of getting it that way anymore. There are horror stories that men have had sex with monkeys, but that is not true.
2006-06-13 22:03:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sexual contact. not by touch and not by kiss and not by talking or sitting beside a person who has it...vaginal sex, anal sex, and needles or blood contact.
not from a toilet seat or any other way...
it is a virus in the blood and must go directly into another person's blood to stay alive and reproduce.
most people now get it from drugs and needle use. you get a flu symptoms and fever and then you feel ok but you have trouble later with your immune system.
hepatitis is easier to get and many people have that. read up on it.
I had a friend who had HIV and then I helped to care for a home of people who were sick with AIDS. I had to be careful I didn't give them my germs..but never had to worry about getting anything from them since I was not sexual with them and did not use drugs or needles. One lady had a daughter who lived with her and she did not have HIV. her mother had HIV when she was pregnant and did not know it and she was born without it...
2006-06-13 21:57:41 · answer #5 · answered by CHERYL S3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HOW DO YOU GET AIDS?
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.
2006-06-13 21:51:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
AIDS is an acronym for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and is caused by HIV or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Sharing infected needles is one way to spread HIV as is having sex with someone who has HIV. Not all HIV positive people develop full-blown AIDS. HIV can be passed through any bodily fluid, but transfer through blood contact and sexual contact are common methods.
The only babies born HIV positive are born to mothers who are also HIV positive.
2006-06-13 22:06:34 · answer #7 · answered by sevenofus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A way u can get aids is by using other people needles. Another way is if another person have aids and u have a open cut and there blood touch the open cut u could get it that way.
2006-06-13 21:54:05 · answer #8 · answered by gemini 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biological research traced AIDS (HIV) to a virus in African wild chimpanzees. Someone may have eaten or handled blood of a wild chimp (yet another reason to prevent poaching) and gotten infected with SIV -a virus that is okay for primates but deadly for humans (HIV).
It is passed sexually, through contact with infected blood (needles, blood transfusions), and from mother to child.
HAVE SAFE SEX!!!
AND STAY AWAY FROM NEEDLES!
2006-06-13 21:58:21 · answer #9 · answered by Diana5384 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can spread HIV through having sex and sharing needles, or getting someone else's blood into your bloodstream but they must have HIV.
Once your white blood cell count is low enough, you'll have a weakened immune system and may not be able to fight off a simple cold.
As your white blood cell count gradually gets lower, you will eventually aquire AIDS.
2006-06-13 21:56:54 · answer #10 · answered by Lisa N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AIDS can be passed on is through bodily fluids (such as semen and vaginal secretions, and blood), using a dirty needle after somone infected with the disease has used it
AIDS cannot commonly be spread by kissing, sweat, saliva or just by touching the infected person.
2006-06-13 21:53:14 · answer #11 · answered by ~*Iverson*~ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋