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An infected person with HIV is contagious soon after initial infection. The highest risk of transmission is during the initial infection, and at the end stage near death.
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What does very early hiv infection prior to seroconversion cannot be excluded mean?
Seroconversion refers to the development of antibodies after infection. There is a period of time between when a person is infected with HIV until they will test positive. This is often referred to as the "window period." Depending on the test, it could take up to 6 months for a person to test positive after being infected with HIV. This is because it takes a while for a person's body to develop the anitbodies associated with HIV infection that HIV tests use to detect infection.
One of the distinguishing characteristics between HIV and AIDS is?
HIV is a virus. AIDS is a diagnosis. HIV is contagious and causes a person to develop AIDS. AIDS is not contagious and only occurs in people who are HIV+.
What is Seroconversion?
Seroconversion is the point at which the immune system is stimulated into developing the antibodies needed to fight infection (or respond to immunization) by an antigen (an antigen is anything that stimulates an immune response - including viruses, bacteria, tumorous cells, things to which we become allergic etc). Seroconversion is frequently (but by no means always) associated with some form of seroconversion illness. In terms of an infection with HIV - the context in which the question was asked - it is important to note that it is the HIV antibodies devolved during the seroconversion process that are detected by the common HIV antibody test. It can take up to three months (the 'window period') for the immune response to be fully triggered and produce enough antibodies to be reliably detected by an HIV antibody test. HIV seroconversion illness generally takes the form of a mild fever / sore throat / rash / mild flu-like illness - some two to six weeks (up to three months) after HIV infection - but can occasionally be severe enough to require hospitalisation. The longer the illness lasts (and the more severe it is) the more likely the untreated patient is to develop AIDS within five years. Even before seroconversion takes place, an HIV infected person will generally have enough of the virus in their blood / sexual fluids / breast milk to infect another person - in fact they are frequently particularly infectious during the window period, before a full immune response has been triggered and the infection can be diagnosed.
What are some reasons why aids isn't contagious?
This is all a bit of a technicality. AIDS is a result of HIV, much like a fever is the result of the flu. A fever is not contagious, but the flu is. AIDS is not contagious, but HIV is.AIDS is a syndrome, not the actual virus. The actual virus is HIV, which is contagious. HIV is what is passed from person to person through blood, unprotected sex, sharing needles, and a few other routes. Once a person has HIV, they will develop AIDS as an effect of the virus.
Can a person join the military with hiv?
Because HIV is contagious and deadly and affect the persons health and fitness.
Is HIV found in saliva?
HIV's are found everywhere.
Is Hepatitis C or HIV contagious in a public swimming pool?
No it is not, for both HIV and HCV.
Is HIV is more contagious than Hepatitis B?
No HIV isn't contagious unless you have sex with someone and stuff like that.Yes it is.HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiancy Virus. It can be contageus through a few different ways.1. Mother to child: when the baby is in the mothers stomach the baby shares the same immune system. If the mother has HIV the baby will to get HIV unless the mother takes certain pills during pregnancy and the baby has a sea section.2. Sex: There are a few bodily liquids that when in contact, get into the other persons body by the penus or vagina. This may cause HIV if one of the parties has HIV already.3. BLOOD: Blood is , surprisingly, the least common way to get HIV. You would have to have an open wound as well as the person with HIV. If you share needles with the a person with HIV then you will get HIV. This is why you need to make sure you go to a profetional ear piercer or tattoo artist.
What are three examples of contagious diseases?
There are more than three contagious diseases. The top three contagious diseases are flu, HIV and Ebola.
Is AIDS caused by microbes?
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by a virus known asHuman Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). HIV is contagious and can be transmitted from person to person. HIV can be transmitted during sexual contact, sharing contaminated needles, from mother to child through breast milk or during birth. HIV has also been spread as the result of contaminated blood products.
Are there hiv carriers?
Yes. Everyone who is infected with HIV is a carrier and infectious. Most people who become infected with HIV will not initially know or notice that they have been infected, but some will suffer symptoms of a short seroconversion illness when they develop HIV antibodies (generally two to six weeks after HIV exposure). Seroconversion illness can be similar to (and can be easily mistaken for) flu, glandular fever, tonsillitis or a serious herpes attack, but is rarely severe enough to require hospitalisation or even result in an immediate HIV diagnosis. The speed at which an untreated person will go on to develop AIDS varies greatly, but most people will remain asymptomatic for several years (it is estimated that around half the people with HIV develop AIDS within 10 years of becoming infected).
Do some get AIDS on purpose?
Bugchasers seek sexual partners who are HIV positive for the purpose of having unprotected sex and seroconversion; giftgivers (also gift givers) are HIV positive individuals who comply with the bugchaser's efforts to become infected with HIV.See related link.
