Environmental Transmission Of Hiv

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Environmental Transmissions and Children

My wife and I were both infected with HIV on 12/1/00. We have 4 young children. Between 4 and 8 weeks after our infection, they all came down with the flu, sore throats, each had terrible coughs, and bloody noses. Two of the children complained of...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

It is very unlikely your children were HIV infected. A number of household contact studies of children living with HIV infected parents have shown little to no risk of HIV transmission in the absence of sexual or blood exposure. Their symptoms were... Read more »

Environmental transmission

Dear Doctor, For the longest time I have been wondering and scared if I or my family are at risk of getting AIDS. I have read several books now on the subject and 2 conflicting statements keep cropping up which confuse me. One is that if you come in...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi.Thank you for your question.In the 15+ years that HIV/AIDS has been with us, there has not been a singlecase of HIV transmission transmitted through ANY form of casual day-to-daycontact. None. HIV is transmitted in a very limited number of... Read more »

hiv transmission and dried patients blood

I am a health professional, and recently participated in a surgical procedure for an HIV+ patient. We have to clean the whole OR room and unfortunately when I was about to remove a light handle fron an operating light something got into my eyes and...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

As I understand it, you are not sure what the substance was, except to say that you are quite certain that it was dried. HIV does not survive well in the environment. Although it is possible to be infected from contact with infected patient... Read more »

HIV Transmission through the blood from banks

If HIV cannot live outside the human body, How come there are reports about HIV tramission through, getting the blood from the banks....

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your question.When it comes to the survival of HIV, we have to look at the environmentalconditions from the viruses perspective. Outside the human body undernatural conditions, is a very harsh and unlivable environment for HIV,... Read more »

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Things to know about HIV Transmission

Posted by health2010, 1 Reply

is it true that an hiv test is invalid if the blood drawn for the test is among several drawings of blood duirng the same session for other tests? Read more »

Things to know about HIV Transmission

Posted by bartleby, 2 Replies

Before you worry your head off about HIV, please make sure you understand some basics to see if you if you were at risk.
What is HIV?
How is HIV transmitted? Read more »

HIV Transmission Risk

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I need to ascess my risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. 6 days ago, I met up with this man that I had chatted to online and we had unprotected sex.
There was a lot of open mouth kissing and fondling. He proceeded to masturbate... Read more »

chances of HIV transmission

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

hi everyone, i was wondering what are the chances of contracting the HIV virus having unprotected sex with someone who has it? for example, i don't understand how magic johnson have the virus and cookie (the wife) who became pregnant doesn't have... Read more »

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