Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 2006. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. I'm from Bangladesh. A few days ago I found in a daily news story that a boy was affected by AIDS through the roadside food. It was found that, the food maker was suffering from AIDS and during making food he cut his finger and blood was mixed with the food. My question is, if the AIDS germ goes to our stomach, then how it spread out from there?
Mark H. Katz, M.D.
Regional HIV/AIDS Physician Coordinator
Kaiser Permanente of Southern California
This may be one of those questions it is impossible to answer for sure, i.e. why did the boy get HIV?
Consider:
Can you even believe what the news reports, since this story goes against all of
what we know scientifically--that it is impossible to acquire HIV in this
manner!
If he really does have it, could he have acquired it from a different, even prior, source? We will never know.
I urge you to not let stories such as this change your thinking about how HIV is and is not transmitted. It is NEVER transmitted from food!
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