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can hiv be airborne or could become i read an article that said that hiv could become airborne eventually,(that arcticle could be just speculative from people that just want to create fear and paranoia) so i want you to answer this question, if that could happen if we should be concern, or thats just an theoricall fact that will be impossible to happen. i want a empiricall and scientific explenation please. http://www.venturearticles.com/why-hiv-could-become-airborne-eventually.html http://www.apfn.org/apfn/aids.htm in this web page appear and article with this name: A REPORT ON THE ABUSE OF POWER Editor: Anthony C. Sutton March 1994 Vol. 13, No.3 AIDS Epidemic Cover Up Research into infection routes was blocked by the gay lobbies. Dr. G. Johnson of Stanford Medical Center, in 1988, determined that HIV could be transmitted through the air. Dr. Johnson asked San Francisco AIDS unit to request further research at the federal level on airborne transmission. 'There is also preliminary evidence that HIV-AIDS can be transmitted through aerosol (coughing droplets) and can be airborne. The federal government has been grossly negligent in this area. We suspect that political pressure by gay lobbies has stilled the research. --------------------------------------------------------------------- hiv can be transmitted by saliva in some situations hi i have this question because a read an article that said that some individual have high levels of hiv in their saliva similar to blood, so i want to know if those high levels of hiv in saliva infer that saliva is infectoious too. because i read other article that said that high viral load in saliva doesnt infer that enough viral infectious particles are present to infect due to the composition of saliva that inactivates the virus. so would be a problem to share a glass of water or kiss a person that could be one of those indivuduals. Hyper-excretion of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 RNA in saliva. Shugars DC, Patton LL, Freel SA, Gray LR, Vollmer RT, Eron JJ Jr, Fiscus SA. J Dent Res. 2001 Feb;80(2):414-20. Source School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-7450, USA. diane_shugars@dentistry.unc.edu
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