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People are rarely infected with HIV through blood transfusion now. Scientists have not always known what HIV was or how to detect it. During this time, many people were infected with HIV as a result of blood transfusion.
Thankfully, now every blood sample collected is tested for a variety of diseases, including HIV.
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How does HIV happen without the involvement of an HIV infected person?
Through lies and deceit. Or through contaminated blood transfusion.
Is malaria only spread through mosqitoes?
Malaria normally spreads by bite of infected mosquitoes. Rarely the disease is transmitted by transfusion of infected blood.
What are the two main ways a young person becomes infected with HIV?
1. blood transfusion 2. pre-marital sex
What is a blood infusion?
Blood infusion is a misused term for blood transfusion. This is where a person receives blood through an IV.
When a person receives blood or a blood component that has been previously collected from that person through a reinfusion it is called?
Autologous donation and transfusion.
What are 2 ways someone can contract AIDS?
Mainly through bodily fluids. Most commonly by sex, or an infected needle or blood transfusion.
What is latrogenic CJD?
Iatrogenic CJD occurs when a person is infected during a medical procedure, such as organ donation, blood transfusion, or brain surgery.
Can T. cruzi spread through blood transfusion?
T. cruzi can be transmitted by blood transfusion
How does a person become infected by AIDS?
Sex: exchanging semen, vaginal fluid or blood with an infected person. Drugs: sharing a needle with an infected person Milk: a baby in the womb if the mother is HIV + Blood: blood transfusion with infected blood (very rare nowadays)
Can you only get gonorrhea through sexual intercourse?
That's untrue. Yes, you can get gonorrhea through sexual intercourse. No, you can get it through a blood transfusion. No, you can get it through a blood transfusion.
A person receives blood or blood parts during what?
blood transfusion
Can you be infected by touching someone HIV Positive?
You can't get infected with HIV from someone coughing on you.
