Beware of Rumors ,Learn About AIDS

* HIV (virus) requires *ONLY* *Blood or Semen* as medium to transmit
from one body to another.

* HIV *can not* transmit even through *Saliva*(mucous) i.e. even if
HIV-infected patient coughs or smooches and another person is
exposed to his sputum (cough) or saliva, the virus still can not
transmit because concentration of virus particles in sputum is
almost NIL & exposure to air anyway kills virus in fraction of
seconds.

* In case an HIV-infected person gets an injury (like the cut in
below mentioned story) and he is bleeding, the virus can transmit to
another person only if another person has a cut/wound in his body &
that too when blood from both person comes in contact with each
other* (this is also very very rare unless bleeding is very high)
and not otherwise.

* HIV can *never survive in any other liquid* medium also other than
blood or semen

* Even if one drinks an HIV infected blood (or semen) of someone
(ingest through Gastro Intestinal track), the virus can not survive
in the acidic pH of stomach*. Highest extent of acidity is 0
(practically not possible) so imagine 1 as pH which is in our
stomach. (This pH can burn your own finger in less than a second if
you dip in that acid).

* Exposure of less than 1 second in AIR KILLS the HIV virus*(hence
story of needle pricks in Cinema theatres is a crap). Even if blood
from a wound (of infected person) dries up (*blood clot*), *the
virus dies*and can not infect anyone else

* HIV transmission is *ONLY* an *INFECTION* i.e.entrance of virus in
one's body. It *DOES NOT MEAN AIDS*.

* An HIV-infected person (after entrance of virus) can progress to a
condition of AIDS only after *8 to 10 YEARS

*It is *not HIV (virus) that kills a human* .....the virus attacks
immune cells (cells that fight against foreign pathogens/antigens)
and hence a person's ability to fight against infections & diseases
slowly diminishes and person ultimately dies of a disease which
could be as simple as TB

* Most importantly, HIV is no longer a dreadful disease ... it is
"*CHRONIC MANAGEABLE DISEASE*" just like Diabetes or Hypertension.

* If there is anything you need to be careful from to prevent HIV is
Unsafe sex*, *Blood transfusion* (check before taking) /Blood
donation (use sterilized needles only) and any *blood contact during
an accident *or so where amount of bleeding is very high.

post this to as many people as u can to make them aware of AIDS.