If you can get West-Nile virus through moskito bite, why you can't get H.I.V. in the same way. The moskito has infected blood inside in both cases. It pumps back part of it.
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If mosquitos could transmit HIV, we would all have had it by now.  Mosquitos live in every environment and everyone has been bitten at least once.  \n\nHIV is much more common than West Nile - there is not a big number of mosquitos carrying West Nile.\n\nMosquitos do not bite one person, then another, then another.  They bite one person then they have to rest & digest.  \nBecause they are digesting a blood borne pathogen that does not infect them - it is not re-transmittable.\nWest Nile is a very different virus than HIV and infects the mosquito - making it tranmissable.\n\nIf any miniscule amount of HIV infected blood is on the mosquito's mouthparts, then the virus would die on contact with the air.
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Is there a possibility during a gynecologic surgical procedure? Sure, needle sticks are something concerns most healthcare professionals. If HIV infected material (for example if a patient is bleeding during a vaginal delivery or any gynecologic procedure) is splashed into the mucous membranes of the doctors eye for example, leads to the possibility of infection. This route isn't a major avenue for HIV infection overall, but the possibility exists, and is more than enough reason to wear eye protection and double glove when working around HIV and Hep C patients, no matter what department you are in.\n\nFrom regular pelvic exams, probably not a very high possibility. \n\nIf your question is should you be afraid of your gynecologist, I would say definitely NO. Most doctors are very cautious.\n\nMaybe you should check out the Centers for Disease Control website for better information:\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/pdf/bbp/Exp_to_Blood.pdf
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Well they let magic johnson play basketball when he was HIV possitive. I guess that it depends on the sport you are playing. In the case of boxing you can not have a contagious blood desease and fight due to the risk of getting cut and the other fighter comming into contact with infected blood. So my best answer is it depends on the sport being played and how healthy the athlete is.
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Viruses enter your body from other bodily fluids, whether it be blood or saliva, excrement or vomit.  Viruses generally travel easier in the medium they affect, AIDS is blood-borne, and while it's possible a blood to blood transfer would infect you with a common cold or flu, it's generally spread by saliva. Generally viruses cannot survive for long outside of a host organism.\n\nYour body is under attack by viruses constantly, many times you will receive a virus and not even know because your body is able to fight it off before it can affect you. Besides the obvious, visible or physical symptoms of an infection, a doctor can test for anti-bodies to see if you've been infected. The main reason we give vaccinations is so your body can fight off a weakened or dead virus and learn to make the anti-bodies to defeat it for the next time you are infected by it. However some viruses can remain dormant for long periods of time and even tests cannot show their presence, since the viral load (amount of virus particles) is so low.  \n\nOn a side note, contrary to what was said above virus are NOT organisms. By the definitions of life it is not alive, technically it is an obligate intracellular parasite. This is for a few reasons, but the big ones are that they are not cellular based and they cannot reproduce (by themselves). They do share characteristics with living things, such as the use of DNA/RNA and the ability to evolve.
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it depends if its a r n a virus or d n a like hep e  cant do ,it without hcb{hep b}to produce the envolope.
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IntraVenous - you know\n\nIntraMuscular - goes thru capillaries, to venules to veins\n\nSubCutaneous (Under the Skin) - typically for Rabies (dog bite); the injection would be given under the skin above the muscle. It is intended to get to go through your capillaries. But without getting very hot (intra body temperature is more) so the virus doesnt die.\n\nIntraArterial: Rarely used; intended to go to a particular part of the body. Like a feet infection.\n\nIntraCardiac: Adrenaline in Heart attacks.
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No.  This is a study that explains three reasons why mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS.\n\nThe three reasons:\n1-Mosquitoes Digest the Virus that Causes AIDS\nMosquitoes that ingest HIV-infected blood digest that blood within 1-2 days and completely destroy any virus particles that could potentially produce a new infection. The virus does not survive to reproduce and invade the salivary glands.\n\n2-Mosquitoes Do Not Ingest Enough HIV Particles to Transmit AIDS by Contamination\nInsect-borne disease agents that have the ability to be transferred from one individual to the next via contaminated mouthparts must circulate at very high levels in the bloodstream of their host.  HIV circulates at very low levels in the blood--well below the levels of any of the known mosquito-borne diseases.\n\n3-Mosquitoes Are Not Flying Hypodermic Needles\nMost people have heard that mosquitoes regurgitate saliva before they feed, but are unaware that the food canal and salivary canal are separate passageways in the mosquito.
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It's quite possible.  I saw a tv show a while ago where a lioness (an animal which generally weighs less than even a baby elephant) survived a bite by a cobra, but a bite to a baby animal might be worse since its immune system is less well developed.  \n\nIt would really depend on how much venom got into the animal's system.
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Yes, diseases can transfer through those mediums. Actually, the virus or bacteria can stay alive and active even if the fruits or vegies are well-rinsed.
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if you do not have any open cuts or sores you cannot contract HIV from him just by getting blood on your finger. i know it's scary but you'll be ok, get tested though just for piece of mind. hope that helps :)
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Highly unlikely but yes any open orifice is. \n\nFacts (Quoted):\nHIV is transmitted through sexual contact, through direct blood-to-blood contact such as sharing needles or syringes, or perinatally from mother to child before, or during birth or through breastfeeding. HIV has been transmitted through transfusions of infected blood or blood-clotting factors, but that rarely happens now because of improved donor screening. ("Facts About The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Its Transmission [Facts About HIV]," HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nHIV enters the body through open cuts or sores or breaks in the skin, through mucous membranes or through direct injection. Epidemiologic evidence implicates only blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk as means of transmission ("Facts About HIV," HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nHIV is not transmitted by donating blood or from animals, food, inanimate objects, insects, urine, feces or water ("Facts About HIV," HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nContact with saliva, tears or sweat has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV, according to the CDC. HIV is found only in extremely tiny quantities in saliva and tears from some AIDS patients. HIV has not been found in sweat ("Facts About HIV," HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nA state health department conducted an investigation of an incident and found a possible case of blood-to-blood transmission of HIV by a human bite. Although uncommon, other reports in the medical literature suggest cases of transmission by a bite. Severe trauma with the presence of blood and extensive tissue damage were reported in each of the instances. The CDC has found no cases of HIV transmission clearly attributable only to saliva. The CDC has found numerous reports of bites that did not cause HIV infection ("Facts About HIV," HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nNo one has been identified as infected with HIV as a result of contact with an environmental surface ("Facts About HIV," HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nClosed-mouth or "social" kissing is not a risk for transmission of HIV. The CDC investigated only one case of HIV infection attributable to possible contact with blood during open-mouthed kissing. However, the risk of acquiring HIV during open-mouthed kissing is thought to be very low ("Facts About HIV," HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nInsects do not transmit HIV. According to studies conducted by researchers at the CDC and other places, a variety of factors make it impossible for insects to transmit HIV, even in areas where there are many cases of HIV and large populations of insects. An insect, such as a mosquito, does not inject its blood or the blood of a previously bitten person when it bites. HIV does not reproduce or survive in insects. Insect mouths do not retain enough blood on their surfaces to transmit from one person to another, and insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after taking in blood ("Facts About HIV,"HIV/AIDS Prevention, CDC, July 1997). \nThere is strong evidence that other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) increase the risk of HIV transmission three- to five-fold. The presence of other STDs in the body increases HIV susceptibility in women by increasing the cells targeted by HIV (CD4 cells) in cervical secretions. The presence of STDs also increases the infectiousness of HIV ("The Role of STD Testing and Treatment in HIV Prevention," CDC, April 1997).
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Technically you cannot get sick from a dead virus so he either has this because he was convinced beforehand that he would be sure to get sick or he has picked up another bug. The flu shot only protects you from the particular type of flu that it was developed for. It does NOT protect you from all strains of the flu.
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My daughter had a bite like that. I took her to the doc and he said it was from an (((((EARWIG))))) which is a bug that lives in trees and has pinchers in the front AND the back of the body so it can bite it's victem twice at the same time. The doc took a skalpel and cut open the pimple looking part of the bite to release the (((((POISON))))) and she was fine. A few weeks later I got bit on my leg by one while I was sleeping and I skipped the doc and lanced it myself. I have two little scars where it had bit me but I got the poison out and I'm fine too. The poison is a yellow/green color. Make sure you get it ALL out or you WILL have to go see a doc. Lance it till you see plain red blood without the yellow/green color.
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blood brothers are an interesting concept - whilst the small amount of blood shared is unlikely to cause any transfusion reactions - it may transmit HIV or Hepatitis, but there is a strange case in Switzerland where a group of girls developed antibodies despite never having been transfused or pregnant/ it was eventually discovered that they had had a blood sisters pact and shared each others blood and had subsequently developed red cell antibodies to the blood they had mixed.
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Wives tale.  Only ingesting the larvae of worms will give you the infection.  The usual method of infection is oral-fecal, meaning you ate something that wasn't washed properly or you didn't wash your hands after touching microscopic amounts of feces with larvae in it.
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AIDS is the disease caused by the HIV virus.\n\nYou can get infected with HIV if the virus passes into your body from someone else who is already infected.\n\nThere are two main ways this can happen:\n\n1. Through having unprotected (no condom) vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV. Oral sex carries a small risk of transmission. There has never been a reported case of transmission through kissing (even deep kissing).\n\n2. Through someone else's infected blood getting directly into your bloodstream, for example through sharing drug or tattoo needles or injecting equipment, or piercing with unsterile equipment. In the first half of the 1980s a number of people were infected from contaminated blood transfusions, but this is very rare now because blood donations are screened. Sometimes HIV is passed from an infected mother to her foetus either in the womb or during birth.\n\nYou CANNOT get HIV through normal non sexual contact, or from sharing eating utensils or from mosquitoes.
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The cause of the disease is a virus.\n\nThe cause of getting the virus is sexual activity, sharing of needles in illicit drug use, and/or blood transfusion.\n\nWhen you separate the cause from how the cause is spread, it is easy to identify the correct answer.\n\nColds are not actually caused by being caught in the rain.  However, getting wet and/or chilled lowers your resistance to the VIRUS that is the actual cause of the disease.  So it is an indirect cause.  The virus is the direct cause.\n\nDoes that help?  I hope so.\n\nSue