Question

AIDS can spread from an infected person to another person through
A) Sharing food
B) Blood transfusion
C) Sharing comb
D) A mosquito bite

Answer 1

Hint:-Human Immunodeficiency Virus causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) and interferes with the body's ability to fight infections. Acute symptoms include flu-like symptoms such as fever, sore throat, and fatigue. The disease is asymptomatic and progresses gradually to AIDS.

Complete answer:
HIV infects the blood and multiplies in blood cells only and HIV is present in the blood of the infected person. So, when the infected blood is transfused to a healthy individual, there are chances of the person getting infected by this virus. The transmission also occurs by other means like through shared injection needles, sexual contact, infected mother to child during pregnancy via Placenta, etc. The virus can also be transmitted through contact between broken skin, wounds, or mucous membranes and HIV-infected blood or blood-contaminated body fluids like semen or vaginal fluids.
AIDS symptoms include severe weight loss, fever with night sweats, chronic fatigue, and recurrence of infections by damaging and decreasing the immune T helper cells. It damages the immune system of the body, HIV interferes with the body's ability to fight infection and disease. Patients often die with less severe common infections like pneumonia etc. Activities like sharing food as HIV is not spread through saliva, sharing comb, and mosquito bites (as no vector is known to carry the HIV) do not contribute to the transmission of HIV.
Thus, the right option is B.

Note:- The National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO) was established in 1992 by India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare that provides leadership to HIV/AIDS control and awareness programs in India from its headquarters located in New Delhi.