Do vampires get AIDS?
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No.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n--- ► λ ◄
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No, mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS. This is because in order for it to transfer, it would have to stay alive inside the mosquito, but it's block by it's salivary glands, so it's like, killed. This is the way for them to survive. Any mosquito that sucks an HIV positive blood, would completely kill the virus so it doesn't harm themselves. Learned this today in Science! I'm so proud I learned something!
1031008
Vampires only attack fat people? Phew!
1187759
You can get infected with a different strain of the virus.  The HIV virus mutants.
584493
No u cannot get it.HIV is transmitted ,\n1.f a person engages in sexual intercourse with an infected person without using a condom, s/he can get infected. The sexual act can be both vaginal and anal.Theoretically oral sex without condom (on men) or barriers like dental dam, vaginal dams or plastic wrap (on women) can also transmit the infection.\n2.If a person shares the needle or syringe used by/on an infected person, either for injecting drugs or drawing blood or for any other purpose involving piercing, s/he can get infected. Instruments used for piercing and tattooing also carry a small risk of infection.\n3.A person can get the infection, if he/she is given transfusion of infected blood.\n4.If surgical devices like syringes and scalpels, or even certain instruments, used on an infected person, are used on another person without proper sterilization, they can transmit the infection.\n5.An HIV positive mother can transmit the virus to child during pregnancy or birth. Breast milk can also act as a transmission-medium.\neven if it has blood on it,HIV cannot survive when exposed to open air.\nNever mess with HIV,stay safe.Also,please devolp some knowledge on HIV/AIDS,u sound ignorant,like some guy who just came from the remotest jungles of Africa.
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They could be.  A person with AIDS has a suppressed immune system, so they are more prone to getting infections, diseases, or cancers than a person without AIDS.  Actually a lot of people with AIDS die not from AIDS itself, but from other dieases that they contract...their immune system is so weak that they can't fight it off and they die from it.
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I don't think that Magic ever had AIDS, he has HIV and still has it.
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This question is ridiculous. AIDS is not only an epidemic, it is a pandemic, and it is most certainly something to be scared of.\n\nThe HIV/AIDS virus is only transmissable through bodily fluids; blood and semen. For this reason, it is most commonly found in gay men and drug abusers. Gay men have anal sex, which usually results in some anal bleeding. When one man ejaculates, the semen can infect the open wounds from which the blood is emitting. This however, it not only seen in gay men, it is also a risk to women who have anal sex with an infected male. Transmission is no different.\n\nIn terms of transmission among drug abusers, this refers to drugs such as heroine which is taken with a needle. Drug abusers arent known for their cleanliness in this matter and  usually use needles which have already been used before. When the needle is used to inject someone with AIDS, it picks up the virus from their blood, when this needle is reused, the person who injects themself will most probably recieve the disease by introducing the infected blood of the first person into their own body.\n\nNo self respecting scientist...or educated person for that matter...would deny that AIDS is caused by a virus. It is a retrovirus and has been extensively studied. It cannot target any specific group of people. Those people are just more susceptible to it through unprotected anal sex and drug abuse with needles.\n\nIt is also very common for people who had blood transfusions in the late 70's and early 80's to have contracted the virus. This is because at that time there were far less restrictions on who could or could not give blood; also, not enough was known about the virus to test blood donors for the disease.\n\nI'm sorry to tell you that the AIDS in africa is the same AIDS we have here, in fact, 50% of the South African army is infected with the HIV virus. There have been more deaths in Africa due to AIDS than there have been deaths by malaria. It is more common in africa due to their lack of contraception, and their significantly less sanitary and deprived medical centers.
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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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I loooved the last comment about going blind!!  \n\nI have to say that however if you did have HIV it could turn into AIDS... probably wouldn't be tiggered by selfgratification.\n\nHIV and AIDS are transmited mainly by blood... if you were to use (as lubricant) the blood of someone that's infected with the diease... well not only would you be sick (mentally) but you would also get sick (with HIV or AIDS).\n\nHowever you should really read a book or at least consult an online encyclopedia.  Get started by going to the following links.
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Actually, nothing happens to a person w/ HIV......  It's only when it turns into full-blown AIDS that the body's immune system is compromised, then the person could get sick and die from any one of a zillion diseases, because the body cannot fight them off.
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Possible. One can have HIV infection from infected blood or sexual fluids. If you happen to touch  an infected blood or sexual fluid and you accidentally touch your wound (if you have one) or you happen to touch the part of your sex organ that is most sensitive to the virus (by having sex with yourself as you said??), then you might get HIV...Just making an analysis.
64097
It all depends on where they bite them. Vampires have to bite on the neck. I am not sure where humans would have to bite.
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Well, there's a big difference with being HIV positive and having AID's. Simply put, HIV will cause AID's. HIV is the virus that attacks your immune system and AID's is the resulting condition of health (i.e. being susceptible to disease and unable to fight common bacterial invaders). It can take as long as a decade from acquiring HIV to finally having full blown AID's. \n\nPeople like Magic Johnson are able to repress the onset of AID's through a complex and expensive regimen of medical treatments. Even though he seems to be perfectly healthy, he requires many types of medicine off-screen. The fact that he can afford them differentiates his health care than with that of a non-celebrity. \n\nCelebrities may have a lot of STD's but many STD's aren't really a big as deal as you would think. Gonorrhea can be cured  with a pill a day for as short as a five days. Chlamydia can be cured with a single dose of anti-biotics. Herpes can be repressed, though never cured, but have periods of dormancy so a person's lifestyle is not really heavily affected. \n\nThe only celebrity I know with a serious disease is Pamela Anderson with, I think, Hepatitis C? But she claims to have gotten it from a dirty tattoo gun.\n\nBut anway, an STD is a loosely associated word. It can be easily used as a scare tactic but in reality, STD's are more common than you think but less serious than you think IF treated early. I believe the HIV virus cannot live outside of the body for more than a few moments as well, so contamination from spilled blood is not too likely. If you could catch a common cold from sex, then a cold would be an STD. Not so scary huh? \nWell, it shouldn't be taken likely but not be used as a scare tactic. \n\nMy bad, kinda rambled on, huh?\n\nWell, I'm a nurse, hope that helped :)
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The short answer is no... and that even applies for those people suggesting a mosquito might give you HIV.\n\nThe quantity of the virus needed to successfully infect a human (and no, just one copy won't do it, sorry) is much more than a mosquito could transfer to you by biting you.\n\nIf you want a plain, no-nonsense explanation of just why mosquitos can't transmit HIV, go here:\n\nhttp://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~insects/aids.htm\n\nOr straight to the CDC's article on the subject here:\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/HIV/pubs/faq/faq32.htm\n\nOr if you prefer, you can also check with Yale's medical research department and see what they have to say here:\n\nhttp://yaleph.com/archive/vol1no3/fact.html\n\nAnd NO, the government IS NOT "covering up" the fact mosquitos can transmit HIV.  It genuinely cannot be done.\n\nThose who are suggesting it can be transmitted through these means, if you'll notice, are quick to tell you to panic, but none seem to have produced any proof to back up their claims.  I would politely suggest until they have documented, clinical proof to demonstrate their claims, they refrain from making them (and these articles explain exactly why a mosquito's proboscis is NOT a "needle" which can transmit HIV, thanks).\n\nBesides, do you really think it's logical that the government would cover up a method of HIV transmission?  The United States government?  The "all gay people have AIDS, don't let infected people within twenty feet of your children, don't let them share the same spoon, we still won't let perfectly healthy gay people donate blood or organs because we're afraid they're all carrying HIV even though we test all the blood and organs we harvest well in advance so we know before it enters the population whether or not it's infected, but we're still scared to death of them" United States government?  \n\nWhen has the United States government, or mass media, for that matter, ever been known to try to AVOID causing a panic about HIV and AIDS?  Usually they do just the opposite.\n\nWhat's more, you do have to bear in mind that if the government was trying to "not cause a panic" about the dangers of disease transmission through mosquitoes, they wouldn't warn people of all the other horrible and potentially fatal diseases which can be contracted through a mosquito bite (west nile virus, viral encephalitis, dengue fever, malaria, etc).  Government authorities and medical professionals are all very open about the fact such diseases CAN be transmitted, though.  They're also just as open about what safety precautions can be taken to prevent the spread of the disease, if possible.  Why be so open about everything else, but so secretive about this?\n\nMost "conspiracy theories" make no true sense, but this one about mosquitoes being able to transmit HIV... well, to quote another poster here "only the naive believe this".
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Mosquitoes can transmit blood born illnesses like yellow fever, so it is wise to be careful but from the government aids fact sheet:  http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/transmission.htm\n\nSome people fear that HIV might be transmitted in other ways; however, no scientific evidence to support any of these fears has been found. If HIV were being transmitted through other routes (such as through air, water, or insects), the pattern of reported AIDS cases would be much different from what has been observed. For example, if mosquitoes could transmit HIV infection, many more young children and preadolescents would have been diagnosed with AIDS.
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OK, HIV cant be transmitted thru mosquitoes cause first: HUMAN... it exists only in humans.  It cannot exist anywhere else.  Remember that when the virus is outside person (that is in the blood) it dies, and only "reactivates" when it comes in contact with blood again (eg an open wound).  Therefore It cant live in a mosquito, cause its not human.  The article below may help.\n\n\nInsects\n\nFrom the onset of the HIV epidemic, there has been concern about transmission of the virus by biting and bloodsucking insects. However, studies conducted by researchers at CDC and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through insects--even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of insects such as mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects.\n\nThe results of experiments and observations of insect biting behavior indicate that when an insect bites a person, it does not inject its own or a previously bitten person’s or animal’s blood into the next person bitten. Rather, it injects saliva, which acts as a lubricant or anticoagulant so the insect can feed efficiently. Such diseases as yellow fever and malaria are transmitted through the saliva of specific species of mosquitoes. However, HIV lives for only a short time inside an insect and, unlike organisms that are transmitted via insect bites, HIV does not reproduce (and does not survive) in insects. Thus, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another sucking or biting insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it feeds on or bites. HIV is not found in insect feces.\n\nThere is also no reason to fear that a biting or bloodsucking insect, such as a mosquito, could transmit HIV from one person to another through HIV-infected blood left on its mouth parts. Two factors serve to explain why this is so--first, infected people do not have constant, high levels of HIV in their bloodstreams and, second, insect mouth parts do not retain large amounts of blood on their surfaces. Further, scientists who study insects have determined that biting insects normally do not travel from one person to the next immediately after ingesting blood. Rather, they fly to a resting place to digest this blood meal.