Let’s Talk About “AIDS”
By Blue Rose on Sunday, 5 of April , 2009 at 6:18 pm
How and where can I get AIDS?
All is not bleak, however. Even though there’s still no vaccine for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, and no cure for the disease itself, it’s not that hard to completely shield yourself from the risk of becoming infected. HIV is actually quite difficult to catch.
Just to clarify: There are only four basic ways you can get AIDS:
- - by using needles tainted with HIV-infected blood;
- - through transfusions or other exposure to tainted blood or blood products;
- - by fetal transmission, from a mother to a baby;
- - through unprotected sex.
By far the most common mode of transmission is sex – AIDS is primarily a sexually transmitted disease (STD). And you are the one who controls your sexual behavior.
You simply cannot get it from casual, nonsexual contact. There’s no evidence HIV has ever been transmitted by shaking hands, hugging, kissing on the cheek, crying, coughing or sneezing. You can’t get by donating blood. You can’t get it from mosquitoes, dogs, cats, toilet seats, office furniture, pools or hot tubs. And in studies of families in which one member had AIDS, there’s no evidence of transmission even though family members shared foods, utensils, towels, cups, razors, and toothbrushes and even kissed each other, according to the Surgeon General’s Office.
How can I know that I’m infected of AIDS? What are the symptoms?
Very briefly, though, once person is infected, the virus enters the white blood cells, mainly those called T4 cells or T-helper cells (are a sub-group of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cell or leukocyte) that play an important role in establishing and maximizing the capabilities of the immune system), “rewrites” the cells genetic blue print and changes it to its own blueprint. In a deadly turn about, the virus transforms this cells that were meant to protect the body into a factory for manufacturing more HIV. In this way, it can over-whelm the body’s defenses with amazing speed.
This is the Kaposi’s sarcoma (skin cancer)
Shortly after the initial infection, a person may experience a flulike illness (fever, swollen lymph nodes, aching joints or muscles, diarrhea). This is followed by a period in which they feel quite healthy but probably contagious. During this period – usually from 2 to 12 weeks after infection – they will test positive for HIV antibodies in their blood. Often there’s a period of latency, also during which the individual is contagious but shows no symptoms. This period sometimes lasts nine or ten years. Ten the virus begins spreading like mad, and when it does, the immune system is rapidly devastated, laying the individual open to attack by conditions such as Kaposi’s sarcoma (a rare skin cancer) or a certain type of pneumonia, Pneumocystis carinii, that has become one of the calling cards of AIDS.
Suffice it to say that everyone – especially people who are sexually active outside of stable, long-term relationship – needs to know the meaning of “safer sex.”
this is the Pneumocystis carinii (a form of pneumonia caused by the yeast-like fungus, Pneumocystis jirovecii)
Our world today is very much advance and it will be advance also for you if you know the safer sex guidelines. I will bring it up on my next issue, it’s very important so you must wait for it.
Comments (2) Category: Health and Sex
Tags: AIDS, fungus, HIV, immune system, Kaposi's sarcoma, leukocyte, lymphocytes, Pneumocystis carinii, pneumonia, sex, STD, T-helper cells, T4 cells, white blood cells
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Those images are scary! If people are more disciplined and have better awareness about HIV and AIDS, it would be greatly reduced. It is so bad that humans has to suffer this way but the blame is also for us.
BTW, thank you for the linky love. I will be adding you as well, I will inform you when it’s up as I am online with my other blogger id now. ^^ Thanks, Blue Rose.
Webbielady
please be careful out there hiv doesn’t have no name on it.
