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Certainly. Only a test which is specific for detecting HIV, the virus which causes the disease AIDS, can tell weather someone is infected with this virus. It does not show up a a by product of some other tests.

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If someone gets their blood on you will you get aids?

Short answer: possibly.First of all, to contract AIDS, the person must be infected with the HIV virus. If the person is infected with the HIV virus (which causes aids) and you get their blood on an open wound, or a mucus membrane such as the mouth, it is possible. If you get some infected blood on normal skin that is healthy, the chances of you contracting the HIV virus are slim to impossible (?).


How can people be infected with blood fluid?

Std, Aids , blood borne disease , infected cow.


What can you catch from a blood transplant?

At times, when they give you infected blood, you can get AIDS.


Is there only one way to transmit aids?

There are three ways I know that you can do to transmit AIDS or HIV. If you have sexual intercourse with the infected person, if you share a needle with the infected person, or if you have blood-to-blood contact with an infected person.


If your blood is normal can you have aids?

No.


Can you get aids from whiping someone?

aids can be sexually transmitted but you can also catch it from the blood of a person infected by aids (hiv)


Can aids spread through infected blood from puncture cut into normal blood?

Yes most diseases can and that is the reason that health professionals and first aid people wear gloves just in case.


Should women with AIDS be able to reproduce?

There is a high chance that the unborn child will be infected.


What age people are infected by AIDS?

AIDS has nothing to do with age. You can be born with AIDS if your mother has it. You can get it any time by contact with infected body fluid like blood or semen. The most common way to get AIDS is by unprotected sex.


Can you get aids by sharing a glass immediately with an infected person?

No only by blood contact.


What is the question scientists are trying to solve?

"Does drinking infected blood give you AIDS"


Is AIDS and hepatitis b are caused by pathogens that are found in the blood of those infected?

no