Disney land some Basic questions

lynzpower

Youngsandy wrote: »

Just back from Florida where we had a fantastic time apart from Wet'n'Wild the place is dilapidated,I ended up with a 2" gash under my knee due to there being tiles missing in the exit pool at the H2O Disco flume,the first aid give was good, but the attitude of the management was awful.Considering I bled into the pool no-one asked if I had any illness that could be transmitted ie. HIV,Hepatitis etc.(which I don't) But they didn't know that, nor did they bother to close the ride until the blood was filtered out.So if your goin I would give the place a body swerve..

you cant catch HIV from blood in water. You can only transmit HIV if you get blood from an infected person directly into your own blood stream.

HIV is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, by sharing needles and/or syringes (primarily for drug injection) with someone who is infected, or, less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth.
In the health care setting, workers have been infected with HIV after being stuck with needles containing HIV-infected blood or, less frequently, after infected blood gets into a worker’s open cut or a mucous membrane (for example, the eyes or inside of the nose). There has been only one instance of patients being infected by a health care worker in the United States; this involved HIV transmission from one infected dentist to six patients. Investigations have been completed involving more than 22,000 patients of 63 HIV-infected physicians, surgeons, and dentists, and no other cases of this type of transmission have been identified in the United States.
Some people fear that HIV might be transmitted in other ways; however, no scientific evidence to support any of these fears has been found. If HIV were being transmitted through other routes (such as through air, water, or insects), the pattern of reported AIDS cases would be much different from what has been observed. For example, if mosquitoes could transmit HIV infection, many more young children and preadolescents would have been diagnosed with AIDS.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/transmission.htm