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The spread of disease through contact with infected blood or other body fluids is known as?
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How hepatitis b transfered?
It's transferred by contact with infected body fluids (blood, semen etc). In areas where the disease is common - infection is more likely spread simply by physical contact with an infected person.
How the Ebola virus spread?
Ebola occurs through skin contact with an infected person or his or her body fluids, feces, body fluids, secretions, needles, by eating animals with virus, and contact with objects.
What are viral disease such as hepatitis and HIV passed?
Through sexual contact and exchanging fluids and blood.
Is chlamydia only passed through bodily fluids?
Yes, chlamydia is only passed through bodily fluids. Chlamydia is spread by sexual contact with someone who's infected. You can get it from oral, anal, or vaginal sex; genital-genital contact; sharing sex toys; or birth to an infected woman.
If you share underwear with an HIV infected person can you get HIV?
No. HIV is transmitted through contact with infected body fluids (blood, semen, vaginal fluid or breast milk.)
Is the only way to transmit viruses through close physical contact with an infected person?
Close physical contact, such as sitting near someone or sleeping near someone who has HIV is not a route of transmission. A person's bodily fluids must have contact with the infected person's bodily fluids (ex. semen, vaginal fluids or blood), in order for transmission to occur.
How is Hepatitis B Transferred?
It's transferred by contact with infected body fluids (blood, semen etc). In areas where the disease is common - infection is more likely spread simply by physical contact with an infected person.
Why is chickenpox an infectious disease?
Because it is easily spread from person to person through contact with body fluids.
Is cytomegalovirus contagious?
Cytomegalovirus is an infectious condition that may be potentially contagious if an infected person comes in close contact with other people. An infected person can spread this disease through bodily fluids and saliva. This infection is caused by a virus belonging to the herpes virus family.
Which type of hepatitis is transmitted through direct contact with contaminated blood and body fluids?
Hepatitis C is the most common chronic blood borne pathogen in the United States. Hepatitis Dcan be found in the blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and other body fluids of people who are infected. Hepatitis B is transmitted through blood and infected bodily fluids.
Can you become infected with hiv through casual contact?
No. To become infected with HIV there must be an exchange of body fluids. Even having a HIV-infected person bleed on you isn't dangerous unless it gets into a cut or other injury.
How to control spread of hiv and aids in nursery setting?
HIV is spread through contact with infected blood, semen, vaginal fluid or breast milk. Preventing the spread of HIV requires avoiding contact with infected body fluids.
