Tag: cancer and aids

Movement through a circuit is called as circulation. This term is generally used for fluid. Transfer is an act of moving of a thing from one place to another place. Conduction is conveying something though a passage or a medium. 
The act of moving something through a medium such as air, water insects etc., is called as transmission. This term is generally used for disease transmission. Therefore, option C is correct. 

Since, HIV causes AIDS. It affects the T-lymphocytes in the body and thus, cancer of lyphmatic system is more likely to occur in AIDS. 

AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is caused by the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). HIV is transmitted primarily sexually, contaminated blood transfusions, hypodermic needles and from mother to child during pregnancy, breast-feeding.However, AIDS does not spread by mere hand-shake or sharing food.Thus, the correct answer is option (D), 'It can be transmitted by shakehand and sharing food'.

if any pregnant female has AIDS and then without treatment, 1/3rd of children has the chance of getting HIV. That means, if 30 pregnant females AIDS patients are admitted to the hospital, therefore 10 children has the probability of having AIDS. However, this risk can be reduced to about one in 20 if females take the drug called zidovudine. Hence, the correct answer is option C.

AIDS is an infectious disease that spreads through sexual contact. It also spreads through blood transfusion, use of common needles and syringes or from infected mother to her baby during pregnancy or breast feeding.

Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a human retrovirus that infects lymphocytes and causes AIDS. It spreads through body fluid by sexual intercourse, blood transfusion and through the placenta. Thus, the correct answer is option B.