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When a person coughs or sneezes, (or breathes) air born particles are produced into the air, where other people breathe or touch them when they fall to a surface. Why do you think TB patients are quarantined? Why do you think that the hospital workers are dressed up in suits from head to toe? (They don't do that for AIDS patients) Also the person can be sick and carry the virus for a few days before the symptoms arrive -- but the virus is there. To add to the situation, at first it seems like a cold ...[/quote]

Some illnesses like the flu are spread through contact with droplets from the lungs or nose (cough, snot).    Some (like Ebola and HIV) are spread through contact with bodily fluid like blood, vomit and feces.

The people in the hospital caring for EBOLA patients are dressed head to toe because symptoms in the later stages include vomiting, diarrhea, and bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose and rectum.   Contact with these fluids is extremely dangerous so people need to take precautions.

With your typical AIDS patient, this bleeding is not usually present.  [/quote]

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