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Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006
6:38 PM
To: eGroup For Muslims Around The
World
Subject: [IslamCity] pani puri
vendors and AIDS - the facts
Nadim
Rehman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear all, Assalamo Alaekum
Being a doctor, I fully endorsed what my sis
mentioned. The oral route of transmission for this
virus is v v weak and in such case as this one, its
not possible to have AIDS. Hope this clarifies.
Regards and Allah Hafiz,
Dr.
Nadim.
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Dear All,
I was interested to read the article on the young boy
who contracted AIDS from the pani puri street vendor. I would be very interested
to know the origin and source of this article. Having worked on the issue of
HIV and Aids for 3 years, i would just like to share with you some facts:
1. person to person contact can result in
the transferrance of the HIV virus but not AIDS which is the resulting illness
from the afore mentioned virus and usually takes a number of months if not
years to develop.
2. Outside the body the virus can only
survive a maximum of 7-10 seconds
3. In order for the virus to leave one
body and enter another it must be transported through either blood or sexual
body fluids. It must also have a direct route into another bodys bloodstream.
In the afore mentioned case, in consuming pani puri handled by someone with a
bleeding finger the blood is already diluted, and the virus will not survive
outside the body for longer than a few seconds. When consumed the blood in the
pani puri is then subject to rigorous tumult in the bodys absorption
systembeing broken down by acid and enzymes in the body. It is unlikely therfore
that transmission could occur in this way.
4. A test which would be for Hiv the virus
would take 3 months to acurately determine the presence of the virus in the
body and not 10 days as the article suggests. This is becos the virus can lay
dormant for up to 3 months before it becomes visible in the body. Also in the
early stages of the virus entering the body it can be countered by the bodies
own immune system till the virus has mutated into a form the body can no longer
defend.
In the south east continent the lack of screening of
blood products and direct blood transfusions are stilla big cause of the spread
of the hiv virus along with sexual transmission and sharing of needles by drug
users.
My apologies for the length of this mail, but surely
as muslims we have a responsibility to pass on accurate information. Who
moderated and checks the info that this group shares? if it our own individual
responsibility tht could i request everyone posting articles also post the
source of the article and its author.
Jazakullah
Khalida
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@B GUL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Plz read this shocking news...
A 10yr old boy had eaten panipuri about 10 days ago and fell sick, later
when he had his health check done doctors diagnosed that he had AIDS.
His parents couldn't believe it
Then the entire family under went a checkup none of
them was suffering from that. The doctors checked with the boy if he had
eaten out?
And the boy says he had panipuri one evening.
The hospital team went there to check. They found the panipuri seller had
a cut on his finger while cutting the onions and his blood had spread in
the food. When they had his blood checked... the guy was suffering from
AIDS but he himself was not aware.
Please take care while u eat from road side vendors.
Kindly forward this message to your friends and make them aware
too.
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