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This is a multi-part answer. No, you cannot get "AIDS" from anything as it is a syndrome. You can, however, contract HIV which can progress into AIDS. The difference in the two is that HIV is a virus called the human immunodeficiency virus and is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections.

Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells. The four major routes of transmission are unsafe sex, contaminated needles, breast milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her baby at birth (Vertical transmission). Screening of blood products for HIV has largely eliminated transmission through blood transfusions or infected blood products in the developed world.

Thus, direct transfer of blood via an open wound could, if at least one of the people were HIV+, allow rapid transfer of the virus directly in the bloodstream.

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