Q. How does the virus of AIDS multiply in the human body? Can someone get HIV through sharing the same orange or mango with an infected person?

Posted on March 30, 2011 by | 8 Comments

First of all there is no virus of AIDS instead there is HIV virus .HIV causes AIDS.  As with any virus, HIV cannot grow and multiply by itself and requires a host to reproduce. The human body is the host for HIV. Once the virus is in the body, it reproduces, and eventually makes the immune system not work properly.

AIDS is a serious condition resulting from HIV in the body.  The body’s defense (immune) system cannot fight or break down illnesses. Without AIDS, the body can fight illness much easier.  A person with AIDS can get many different kinds of diseases because their immune system is weakened. By sharing oranges and mangos you can not get the HIV virus .HIV can be transmitted from an infected person to another through the following:

  • Semen,
  • Breast milk,
  • Direct blood contact like a blood transfusion and use of drug needles,
  • Mother-to-baby contact (before or during birth, or through breast milk).
  • HIV cannot be spread through normal contact such as coughing, sneezing, hugging, or kissing.

…response by Gregory Munyaneza

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8 responses to “Q. How does the virus of AIDS multiply in the human body? Can someone get HIV through sharing the same orange or mango with an infected person?”

  1. churchill | August 2, 2011 at 1:39 pm | Reply

    but if a man infected with aids have a broken vessel in the mouth and he kisses his daughter directly in the mouth and it happens to be that his daughter also has a broken vessel in her mouth would the virus get into her body through also through that broken vessel

  2. churchill | August 2, 2011 at 1:45 pm | Reply

    yes the person can get it if there’s broken blood vessel in the mouth of the person and the other person also has a broken vessel the virus will then get in contact with the uninfected person

  3. Menya Shaban | September 25, 2011 at 8:54 pm | Reply

    No you cannot contact hiv through sharing eats or drinks.

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  5. Manolo | December 23, 2011 at 5:03 am | Reply

    I wouldn’t kiss a person with AIDS.

  6. gokul | April 14, 2012 at 1:10 pm | Reply

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  7. Vickey vky | May 12, 2013 at 5:36 am | Reply

    How to find aids in a human body? What are the notification of aids? How its starts?

  8. Okpake Moses | September 10, 2016 at 2:03 pm | Reply

    If You Kiss Infected Person that Has Injury In He Or Her Mouth You Will Be Infected Too,

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