What are the symptoms of AIDS

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AIDS is a kind of serious chronic progressive infectious disease, which is caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) invading human body, destroying human immune function, causing a variety of incurable infections and tumors, and eventually leading to death. What are the symptoms of AIDS.

What are the symptoms of AIDS

First: AIDS is a serious chronic progressive infectious disease, which is caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) invading human body, destroying human immune function, causing a variety of incurable infections and tumors, and eventually leading to death.

Second: HIV mainly exists in the body fluids of HIV infected or AIDS patients, including blood, semen, vaginal secretion, milk, wound exudate, etc. Any behavior that can cause body fluid exchange has the possibility of HIV transmission.

Third: there are three ways of transmission of HIV: sexual contact transmission, blood transmission and mother to child transmission. About 3 / 4 of HIV infection in the world is transmitted by sexual route.

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The vitality of HIV outside the human body is very fragile. It can only survive for a few hours to a few days at room temperature outside the body. It can be washed with soap, hot water or bleach powder to kill it. Air and water, coughing and sneezing, mosquito bites, sharing toilets, telephones, tableware, courtesy kisses, swimming and hugs will not spread.