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How do people catch hiv and what are the symptoms?
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Unprotected sex, IDU: Hiv infection is acquired through unprotected sex, injection drug use, or transfusion of hiv-infected blood products. As HIV infection progresses untreated and one's immune system worsens, one can develop aids. The symptoms can be very vague, including fever, rash, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, though many people are entirely asymptomatic, meaning they have absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.
Answered 6/10/2014
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