What are the symptoms of human immune deficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome and what to do prevent from this.
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When someone gets infected with hiv, there will be transient symptoms of viral infection like fever, sore throat, neck node swellings, but they will subside by themself in 1 month and then patient will remain asymptomatic for a long time ranging from 5 years to 10 years. The virus in between this period will continue damaging the body's immune system, and when the damage is increasing the patient starts getting different types of infections in various organs of body. These infections many times are caused by such organisms which usually do not cause disease in otherwise healthy person, so they are called opportunistic infections (i. E. Infections see an opportunity and occur in body when the immunity is low). When the immune system is too low and pt gets serious infections that stage is called aids. They hiv spreads through blood and body fluids. So best way to prevent is to prevent contact of blood or body fluids from a patient. Measures such as safe sexual practices, avoiding contaminated blood transfusion, not using already used needles and syringes, and ways to prevent mother to child transmission in womb can prevent the spread of hiv.
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