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Subject: Questions about HIV transmission

Date: Mon May 7 18:23:12 2012
Posted by alex
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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.
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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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