Fw: AIDS; Please don't be a part of spreading rumours

February 28, 2008

Warms Regards,Sushil VashishthNIIT Limited#9891009125

hiiiiiiii friends

This mail has been written by Mayank who works in Ranbaxy. So go through it and know abt the actual causes of HIV (AIDS), and the rumours spreading these days.

Dear Friends!!!Its good to be well informed about HIV.There was a story on junk some days back where it is said that a boy got infected by HIV virus by eating pani-puri.And there have also been rumors where people are affected by the HIV viruswhen they got pricked by an HIV infected needle in theaters which isrubbish.So read along! RANBAXY....I have seen this below mentioned mail floating across group email & I feel its my moral responsibility to correct all misconceptions regarding HIV /AIDS. I can do this because I am educated enough to comment on this and forthose who don't know my profession ... I am serving as Brand Manager(Product Manager) handling anti HIV/AIDS

portfolio (called as Antiretroviral Drugs) in Ranbaxy. Please read following points carefully & don't send such emails related tomedical ailments without having complete knowledge about it (even partial knowledge could be grossly dangerous). * HIV (virus) requires *ONLY* *Blood or Semen* as medium to transmit from one body to another * HIV *can not* transmit even through *Saliva* (mucous) i.e. evenif HIV-infected patient coughs and another person is exposed to his sputum (cough), the virus still can not

transmit because concentration of virusparticles in sputum is almost NIL & exposure to air anyway kills virus infraction of seconds * In case HIV-infected person got an injury (like the cut in belowmentioned story) and he is bleeding, the virus can transmit to another person only if another person has a cut/wound in his body & that too when*blood from both person comes in contact with each other* (this is alsovery very rare unless bleeding is very high) and not otherwise * HIV can *never survive in any other liquid* medium also otherthan blood or semen ( & please for God sake ... never in Pani Puri wala pani) * Even if one drinks an HIV infected blood (or semen) of someone(ingest through Gastro Intestinal track), the virus *can not survive in the acidic pH of stomach*. Highest extent of acidity is 0 (practically notpossible) so imagine 1 as pH which is in our stomach. (This pH can bun yourown finger in less than a second if you dip in that acid). * *Exposure of less than 1 second in AIR KILLS the HIV virus*(hence story of needle pricks in Cinema theatres is a crap). Even if blood from a wound (of infected person) dries up (*blood clot*), *the virus dies*and can not infect anyone else * HIV transmission is *ONLY* an

*INFECTION* i.e. entrance of virusin one's body. It *DOES NOT MEAN AIDS*. * An HIV-infected person (after entrance of virus) can progressto condition of AIDS only after *8 to 10 YEARS *(not in 15 days as in belowmentioned story) * It is *not HIV (virus) that kills a human* ..... the virusattacks immune cells (cells that fight against foreign pathogens/antigens) and hence a person's ability to fight against infections & diseases slowlydiminishes and person ultimately dies of a disease which could be as simple as TB * Most importantly, HIV is no longer dreadful disease ... it is"*CHRONIC MANAGEABLE DISEASE*" just like Diabetes or Hypertension.If there is anything you need to be careful from to prevent HIV is *Unsafesex*, *Blood transfusion* (check before taking) / Blood donation (usesterilized needles only) and any *blood contact during an accident *or so where amount of bleeding is very high.

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