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New ways of transmission between partners?
#165806 - 12/01/05 08:32 AM
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I hope this post doesn't come off as juvinile.
I am in a situation that I am sure many of you are in. My partner is positive and I am currently negative. I am rather comitted to staying negative though I am more committed to my life with the man I love. With all of this talk in the news about bedbugs lately, I got curious and did some quick research.
I found that these bedbugs prey exclusively on human blood and actually, it seems they are perfectly designed for vector transmission of various diseases. The research shows that they have never been shown to transmit, however. It also seems that the main reason they have not been transmitting blood bourne is that after they draw your blood, they retire to rest or hybernate for a week or more during which time the disease agents outside of the human body die.
Because bedbugs have not been a huge problem in recent years, not much has been considered in my opinion of the possibility of transmission between people who sleep together of a number of diseases. Hepatitis B seems like a perfect disease for this bug to pick up from a person and pass to the partner by biting before its hybernation period in the night. Hepatitis C might fit this as well as far as I can tell. Why not HIV or other serious infections?
Isnt this something we should be watching?
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ny10001
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This is similar to the mosquito argument that crops up from time to time. Almost all insects/bugs that bite people don't represent blood -borne disease transmission risks because they don't inject the previous person's blood into the next person. Once they ingest the blood from one person, it stays inside the bug even if they bite another person. There's no "backwash" effect.
I think you've asked a logical question, but the most important thing to focus on for you in terms of possible infection will be continuing the rules of safe intimacy with your partner.
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debtex
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what NY said is correct, but also keep in mind you would KNOW if you had bedbugs. They arent the same as a dustmite and such....bedbugs are a terrible neucance (SP?), and you would be awaken with terrible itches and usually "spots" like bites when you wake up. AND IF you were to assume those itches & marks, to find out, flip over your mattress.....you can actually SEE bedbugs. they really arent THAT small. maybe the size of an ant. not as tiny as dustmites and bugs you wouldnt see.
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AIDS2HIV
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no need to worry, the virus cant be transmitted thru bugs....theres a reason for it being called "human" immunodeficiency virus...its exclusively for us humans.
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