RNA virus Questions

Hye. Thanks for the query.
The Zika virus disease can cause fever, rash, joint pain, and redness in the whites of the eye. But most people won’t know they have it.
Though some people have no symptoms at all.
The virus rarely causes major complications, but in rare cases, Zika has been associated with Guillain-Barre syndrome, a disorder that can cause partial or complete paralysis, usually starting in the legs, most often temporary.
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thrcsign symptoms of zika virus is samevas flu like fever,cough,cold,running of nose headeche bodyache fatigue etc the virus strain is same but the victornis different.

There are four ways of spreading hiv through unprotected sex with an infected partner through contaminated blood transfusion from infected syringes and from infected mother yo child in the womb to protect yourself you have yo take precautions for sexual relationship ask the doctors and nurses to check the blood if transfusion is required ask the nurses to use new packed disposable sterlized syringes.

Swine flu is caused by H1N1 virus and is more serious than normal seasonal flu.it is an air borne infection and spreads through the sneezing and coughing of infected individual)- Normal flu- byInfluenza/H4N2 virus

Dengue Fever is Caused by Dengue fever virus (DEN 1, DEN 2, DEN 3, DEN 4)

And This virus is transmitted by the bite of an infected female aedes aegypti mosquito,

Lybrate-user, Please do not do any test.
Both are RNA PCR, means polymerase chain reaction. Qualitative tells positive or negative.
Quantitative gives count of virus per cc. For diagnosis qualitative is to be done, it is a bit cheaper than quantitative.
In any case you will be meeting me this week at Bangalore.
If urgency, pl take a private consult with audio video chat and then I can guide you properly.

I am sorry to hear about your concern but will be happy to assist you.
The hiv rna test is deemed to be 100% conclusive if done after 10 to 12 days from the date of exposure. There are some theories that say this test becomes less accurate from about 3 months post exposure. This is because at 3 months post exposure, the body would have made antibodies to fight the hiv virus.
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It is caused due to the bite of a mosquitos and see to it that there is no stagnation of water in your house and nearby locality for more than seven days because these are the breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

If CD4 count is with in normal limits than the person is asymptomatic and if the level is low than there can be lymphadenopathy and secondary infections which have their own symptoms

They believe that the chimpanzee version of the immunodeficiency virus (called simian immunodeficiency virus or SIV) most likely was transmitted to humans and mutated into HIV when humans hunted these chimpanzees for meat and came into contact with their infected blood.