Aids How It s Spread - 1023 Words

Stakely 1 Alex Stakely Professor Wheeler English 101-A (8:00 a.m.) 14 November 2014 AIDS: How It’s Spread AIDS is one of many outbreak diseases that have hit the U.S. It has spread all over the world and has been a major epidemic to our society. The disease started in the U.S. in the 1980s and has spread all over the states. AIDS is spread from person to person by unsafe sex, blood, and a mother’s birth milk because it is one of many transmittable diseases. You cannot get it from kissing, hugging, or just by random touch as some people might think. AIDS does not have a cure, but the symptoms can be reduced by treatments. AIDS has the ability to change a person or family’s life forever and it is important to know about this disease†¦show more content†¦Stakely 2 Primarily, AIDS can be spread in many ways. Ways that it can be spread: sexual intercourse—with a man or woman, direct contact with someone‘s infected blood, or from a mother to her unborn baby. You cannot get it from hugging, kissing, touching, coughs, sneezes, using something that someone infected did, or anything like that. Some people may think that they cannot even touch someone if they have AIDS but that idea is false. The condition is only transmittable by unprotected sex, infected blood contact, or from the mother to an unborn baby. Bodily fluids that can spread the disease: blood, semen, a mother’s birth milk, tears, saliva, ear secretions, urine, vaginal or cervical fluids, bronchial fluid, and cerebrospinal fluid (Hoffman 175). Out of all the bodily fluids you can possibly get the disease from, blood is the most dangerous. Transfusion of infected blood into an uninfected recipient is the equivalent of injecting live virus into the person and is an almost certain route of infection (Hoffman 174). Other bodily fluids still carry the virus, but blood has the highest risk to it. Furthermore, there are ways of preventing the disease. When talking about sex, there are a few ways to reduce the chance of getting AIDS. These ways are abstaining from sexual activity entirely, avoiding sexual activity with high-risk partners, limiting the number of sexual partners you have,