AIDS virus is found in the blood of the infected person

AIDS virus is found in the blood of the infected person. The virus is even found in genital secretions of every infected person. This virus spreads to an uninfected person who happens to come in sexual contact where in the virus from the genital secretions of the infected person enters the tissues of the healthy person (which are at the lining of the anal area, vagina, mouth etc.), the virus enters in the body of an uninfected person if the blood (or genital secretion) of the infected person is touched by the uninfected person who has cut/punctured skin on the area that comes in contact with it or if an uninfected person uses a syringe/needle (used for any purpose such as tattooing, drugs etc.) that is used by an infected person. The virus also spreads from infected mother to newborn baby during pregnancy and even breast feeding from the infected mother can cause AIDS to her baby.

Now let us see effects that a person might experience after getting infected with HIV virus. The person who gets infected by HIV virus (knowingly or unknowingly) does not develop positive HIV antibodies immediately; in fact it takes between 2 to 4 months to turn the HIV antibodies into positive (which can be confirmed by tests such as ELISA and western blot). The starting period of infection of HIV virus is also called primary stage of HIV infection. During this period, the infected person (although this is not what all the infected patients experience, but these are general symptoms) experience a flu-like situation, the person might experience fever for several weeks. Soared throats/mouth, frequent fever, muscles and join pain, swollen lymph nodes in the neck etc. are some of the common symptoms experienced by most of the AIDS patients during their primary stage of infection. In most of the cases it is found that the above enlisted symptoms vanish as soon as the HIV virus turns positive. In this phase, the virus starts spreading (multiplying) inside the body of the infected person and as he has no symptoms of AIDS, only a test can tell whether the person is infected with HIV.