Question

Mention any four symptoms of HIV and four myths about its transmission.​

Answer 1

Answer:

HIV isn't spread through touch, tears, sweat, saliva, or pee. You can't catch it by:

Breathing the same air

Touching a toilet seat or door knob or handle

Drinking from a water fountain

Hugging, kissing, or shaking hands

Sharing eating utensils

Using exercise equipment at a gym

Answer 2

Following are the symptoms of HIV -:

• Swollen lymph nodes
• Recurring fever
• Night sweats
• Weight loss
• suspectibility to secondary infections
• Inability to speak and loss of clear thinking
• Severe damage to brain leading to memory loss

Modes of Transmission -:

• The AIDS disease usually spreads through unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected person ( i.e. without the use of condom ; condom is a membranous , penile sheet of rubber having an anti-veneral or

a contraceptive function ) Thus AIDS is sexually transmitted viral disease .

• Through contaminated blood transfusion .

• Through the use of contaminated blades, razors , needles and syringes

• Artificial insemination using infected semen .

• Through vertical transmission , i.e., from infected mother to her foetus through placenta during pregnancy

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