How is AIDS transmitted?

AIDS, also known as AIDS, is a highly contagious disease, but it spreads slowly. It is mainly transmitted through sexual intercourse, blood, mother-to-child breastfeeding, etc. The chances of transmission through other means are relatively small. Patients with early AIDS may not have any discomfort symptoms. If they do, they will show symptoms similar to a cold, such as general weakness, loss of appetite, and fever. As the disease worsens, the skin and mucous membranes will be infected with Candida albicans, causing herpes, purpura, blood blisters, etc. If these symptoms occur, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination immediately and be isolated. The following are some of the ways HIV is transmitted.

AIDS is a highly harmful infectious disease caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is a virus that attacks the human immune system. It takes CD4T lymphocytes, the most important part of the human immune system, as its main attack target, destroying a large number of these cells and causing the human body to lose its immune function. Therefore, the human body is susceptible to various diseases and may develop malignant tumors, with a high mortality rate. The average incubation period of HIV in the human body is 8 to 9 years. Before contracting AIDS, people can live and work for many years without any symptoms. When facing this virus, we should not avoid it. We should actively understand it. Only by understanding it can we avoid being infected by it. The following introduces the transmission routes of AIDS and the circumstances under which it will not be transmitted.

AIDS transmission route:

AIDS is transmitted through three ways: sexual contact, blood, and mother-to-child transmission. You will not be infected through daily life and work contact with HIV-infected people or patients.

Worldwide, sexual contact is the main route of HIV transmission. Currently in my country, intravenous drug use using shared syringes is the main route of HIV transmission, but the proportion of HIV transmission through sexual contact is increasing year by year.

AIDS can be transmitted between men and women through sexual intercourse (vaginal, oral, and anal).

Sharing syringes for intravenous drug use is an important risk behavior for the transmission of HIV through blood.

The transfusion of blood or blood products contaminated with the HIV virus, and the use of instruments that enter the human body during surgery, injections, acupuncture, tooth extraction, cosmetic procedures, etc. that have not been strictly sterilized can all spread HIV.

Women infected with HIV may transmit HIV to their fetus or baby through pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. Without preventive measures, about 1/3 of fetuses and infants will be infected.

In daily life and work, shaking hands, hugging, kissing politely, eating together, sharing work tools, office supplies, coins, etc. with HIV-infected people or patients will not cause HIV infection.

AIDS cannot be transmitted through public facilities such as toilet seats, telephones, tableware, bedding, swimming pools or baths.

Coughing and sneezing do not spread HIV.

Mosquito bites will not cause HIV infection.