What are the various routes by which tra | Class 12 Biology Chapter Human Health and Disease, Human Health and Disease NCERT Solutions

Question: What are the various routes by which transmission of human immunodeficiency virus takes place?
Answer:

AIDS (Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome) is caused by the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

It has the following modes of transmission:

(a) Unprotected sexual contact with an infected person.

(b) Transfusion of blood from a healthy to an infected person.

(c) Sharing infected needles and syringes.

(d) From an infected mother to a child through the placenta.


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Comments

  • Naznin
  • 2020-10-02 14:21:53

Sorry , but its (b) Transfusion of blood from an infected person to a healthy person. Thank you.


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