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This document discusses HIV transmission and the history of identifying HIV. It spreads through bodily fluids like blood, semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk, and from mother to child during birth. The major routes are unprotected sex, shared needles, breastfeeding, and mother-to-child transmission. In the 1980s, researchers Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently discovered that a novel retrovirus was infecting AIDS patients.

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This Transmission Route Is Particularly Relevan

This document discusses HIV transmission and the history of identifying HIV. It spreads through bodily fluids like blood, semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk, and from mother to child during birth. The major routes are unprotected sex, shared needles, breastfeeding, and mother-to-child transmission. In the 1980s, researchers Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently discovered that a novel retrovirus was infecting AIDS patients.

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Human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),[1][2] a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to
fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of
blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or mother milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as
both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells. The four major routes of transmission
are unsafe sex, contaminated needles, mother milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her
HIV infection in humans is considered pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO).baby at birth

Comparison of HIV specie

Species Virulence Infectivity Prevalence Inferred origin

HIV-1 High High Global Common Chimpanzee

HIV-2 Lower Low West Africa Sooty Mangabey

AIDS was first clinically observed between late 1980 and early 1981. In 1983, two separate
research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declared that a novel retrovirus
may have been infecting AIDS patients, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal
Science.[170][171] Gallo claimed that a virus his group had isolated from an AIDS patient was strikingly
similar in shape to other human T-lymphotropic viruses (HTLVs)
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