Jaise AIDS choone se nahi phailta waise yeh Pani Poori ya sui (needle) chubhane se bhi nahi phailta...yakin na ho to padhkar dekh lijiye... My
Dear Friends!!! It is a common saying that
"Prevention is better then Cure" but in case of
AIDS/HIV its always said that
"Knowledge is its best Prevention"...Its always good to be well informed about AIDS/HIV...
There was a story on junk or forwarded mails some times back in which it is said that a boy got infected by HIV virus by eating pani-puri...And there have also been rumors where people are affected by the HIV virus when they got pricked by an HIV infected needle while traveling on a bus or in theaters, which is all rubbish.
So please read along and put your attention os some important issues!!!
We all must have seen this below mentioned mail floating across group emails & its our moral responsibility to correct all misconceptions regarding HIV /AIDS.
I have got this information through my friend and it is provided by the
Brand Manager / Product Manager handling
anti HIV/AIDS portfolio (called as
Antiretroviral Drugs) in
Ranbaxy...He is explaining this as he is educated enough to comment on this...
Please read following points carefully &
don’t send emails related to Medical ailments without having complete knowledge about it (even partial knowledge could be grossly dangerous).
* 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 (& please for God sake ... never in Pani Puri wala pani)
* 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 (not in 15 days as in the Pani Puri story)
*
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.
Please spread this message to avoid rumors and to educate people...
Thanks for reading...
Regards,
Akash