Health: why AIDS rumors popular

Source: health

        ZhangTian survey (scholars)

        A few days ago, someone through the network and text message spread a message, says the HIV virus infected people deliberately will own the blood drip to the food in the hotel, some people have already infected. To this, health said, this is typical of the all events together, "drop of blood spread HIV/AIDS is a rumor. Scientific evidence that HIV/AIDS have 3 kinds of ways, namely the way, sexual way and blood maternal and infant way. The AIDS virus will not through the tableware, water, food and infect.

        This AIDS rumor is not the first time, but it won't be the last. As early as in 2002, some places just rumours that someone with AIDS patients with a needle to Pierce the blood HIV transmission, and later, the way with all the spread of AIDS, such as the AIDS patients blood injections into bananas and watermelon to spread, not only lead to local panic, but also cause bananas and watermelon serious slow-moving offered tears.

        Why AIDS rumors like early-season, every once in a while it will be a bottom? The general attribution way is, people of scientific literacy is not high. However, scientific literacy is not high reason is various, and what factors are to people's scientific literacy is not high, so let people take various rumors of the spread of AIDS? Because of this problem in China will seldom into scientific research "FaYan", even in "soft" to may not be the way, so for this problem no also won't study, research fund never put into these areas.

        However, scientific research and social life of some of the events it did provide some clues and gives some indirect or direct answer, one of the tip is, the spreading of science does not reach the designated position, and the researchers is keen not to science communication is likely to lead to including AIDS, involving many scientific issues of the spread of rumors. About AIDS, recently, there is a relatively fresh example.

        Beijing union medical college hospital infection medical director LiTaiSheng study found that, after treatment, the blood the AIDS virus has a negative AIDS patients tears, still contain the AIDS virus. The findings are published in the September international academic journal AIDS ". Then, after many in the news media, after reports of the tears that may spread HIV/AIDS became, or "tears of AIDS fourth transmission way".

        However, LiTaiSheng said they were published in the AIDS journal papers wrote: "we have evidence that when the virus blood be suppressed, tears still exist in a virus, should be the AIDS virus tears stores." LiTaiSheng points out, they proved to contain the virus tears, but doesn't mean the virus would spread by this way. Because, so far, the world is not a case of cases of the disease because contact with tears.

        So, how to reassure the misunderstanding of the public to trust and Buddhism? Better is the bell to people. LiTaiSheng research team and the HIV/AIDS prevention and control relevant professional personnel and the media needs to explain his tears contains the AIDS virus and the spread of AIDS relationship, to tears and whether it could spread to explain the AIDS virus. And the explanation of course is divided into aimed at professional field (professional) and public sector (public) two aspects.

        On the former, LiTaiSheng team of researchers has done very well, their clinical work to provide guidelines, "in HIV positive patients with eye examination or surgery, must strengthen the protection, handled carefully". And to the public, but for whatever reason not to put forward the corresponding explanation. The explanation is, although tears contains the AIDS virus, but found no one is the spread of HIV/AIDS through tears.

        Although tears can't spread of AIDS scientific principle also need to study results to prove that, but can be by far the practice of HIV/AIDS prevention and control and existing research results to make logical explanation. The AIDS virus can only exist in the liquid, very weak, and is very sensitive to dry, in the dry environment, the virus 10 minutes and death, in 56 degrees Celsius in the environment of 30 minutes inactivated.

        Even if someone in the life contact with AIDS patients tears, but if the contact with skin not damaged and the wound, it is impossible to spread through tears. This as the AIDS virus also existed in the saliva but no one for and with AIDS patients kissing and AIDS, of course the premise is the kiss of oral not damaged and the wound.

        Fighting AIDS and HIV/AIDS rumors, not only need to scientific research, and need to science communication. Unfortunately, we attach great importance to the former, but for the latter but not value even despised, and thus AIDS rumors will popular again and again.