Pre-Chewed Food New Routes of Tranmission for HIV

Its been interesting to note that a new documented cases of transmitting HIV is through pre-chewed food to infants. This practice is mostly seen in communities or countries with inadequate appropriate food supply to infants that are immediatey available to developed countries commercially.

The article at AOL Body will provide you more information about this issue.

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Pre-Chewed Food Gave HIV to Kids
By MIKE STOBBE
AP Posted: 2008-02-07 09:54:50
ATLANTA (Feb. 6)

For the first time, health officials report that the AIDS virus can be spread by a mother pre-chewing her infant's food, a practice mainly seen in poor, developing countries.

Three such cases were reported in the United States from 1993-2004, government scientists said Wednesday in a presentation in Boston at a scientific conference.

It's blood, not saliva, that carried the virus because in at least two of the cases the infected mothers had bleeding gums or mouth sores, according to investigators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...more