Sexual Health
What are the ways of AIDS transmission? Is saliva one of the ways of AIDS transmission
AIDS is a way of transmission. It is believed that AIDS is not common, but it is also very familiar. AIDS is a kind of venereal disease. Because there is no clear cure, the skin will be severely damaged when it comes to disease, the symptoms are terrible, and the mortality rate is high. So everyone is more concerned about the way of transmission of AIDS, especially the saliva contact in life will spread AIDS?
Is it true that AIDS is transmitted through saliva? The transmission of AIDS is sexual transmission and blood transmission, so whether the transmission of saliva is tenable? We can safely deny this, because HIV is relatively vulnerable. When saliva spreads in the air, HIV is killed by oxygen, and the probability of saliva spreading AIDS is almost zero.
AIDS will not be transmitted through saliva, but it can pass the saliva test. HIV is mainly transmitted through antigens, and the test is through antibodies. AIDS virus antibodies can be detected in urine, saliva, tears, semen, and vaginal secretions of people infected with AIDS virus.
The saliva rapid detection reagent uses artificially synthesized proteins as antigens to quickly and qualitatively detect HIV1/2 antibodies in saliva. Because saliva does not transmit HIV, there is no wound or blood in the test, so there is no problem of infection. It can also avoid the risk of infection for testing personnel or medical staff, the occupational exposure risk for sampling personnel, and the risk of transmission of medical waste.
AIDS patients' saliva does contain AIDS virus, but saliva transmission of AIDS is a prerequisite, such as sneezing, eating together and so on, will not be infected with AIDS, but if there are oral ulcers accompanied by bleeding, if deep kissing and other deep contact, it is possible to be infected with AIDS. Experts explained that AIDS virus can be found in saliva, but the amount of virus is very small.
AIDS virus can spread only when it reaches a certain amount. Some people have calculated that if the virus in saliva reaches the amount of infection, it may be necessary to swallow more than 20 ml of infected people's saliva at a time.
Saliva does not infect AIDS, for the following reasons:
The number of infectious particles is very small: HIV virus can usually be detected in the saliva of less than 1-5% of HIV infected individuals.