viernes, 22 de enero de 2010

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A.I.D.S.

The HIV virus is transmitted through blood contact with an infected person's blood, blood with body fluids such as semen, vaginal fluid of an infected person, through breast milk in breast feeding the newborn by a infected person or during childbirth. Factors that increase the likelihood of infection such as high viral load (high amount of free virus in the blood), immune status of the person being exposed to infection, repeated exposures, etc. For the other hand there are practices of risk potentially expose the individual to infection by HIV: Anal or vaginal sex without a condom with someone carrying the virus. Sharing needles with infected people Breastfeeding a child by an infected mother. Breast milk contains a person carrying the HIV virus and it can be transmitted to the infant during breast feeding. During pregnancy is uncommon infection of a mother with the baby she is brewing, but usually 50% of births to HIV + mothers (ie with the HIV virus) transmitted the virus to newborns. The most frequent questions from the general public with common situations the possibility of transmitting the virus are: Bloodsucking insect bites such as mosquitoes or bedbugs do not transmit virus. Kissing on the mouth does not transmit the virus Share underwear does not transmit virus The tears of an infected person does not transmit the virus

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