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AIDS is an infectious disease
that can come into your body after the virus called HIV has taken hold. Once
your immune system has been reduced to the point where it can't protect your
body, you can't even fight a cold. While you are
in that state, a measly cold could turn into a horrible pneumonia.
The only
way to not get HIV when you are born to a mother who has HIV is to take a
vaccine for six weeks after birth. Your mother must also have been treated
during pregnancy.
If you don't have HIV, then don't worry about getting
AIDS, unless it is transferred through bodily fluids. ???With aggressive AZT
treatment of the mother during pregnancy and of the infant for six weeks after
birth, the transmission rate can be reduced to less than 10 percent. Early
fears that the drug itself might cause birth defects have not materialized.???
AIDS is an infectious disease that has no cure at this point in time.
Bibliography: www.thebody.com/basics.html
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