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AIDS may spread throught casual contact, Haseltine said. Although it is is currently known to be transmitted only by sex, donated blood, organs, and semen, and from pregnant mothers to their unborn children, it may also be transmissible by tears, saliva, bodily fluids, and mosquito bites...
...Anyone who tells you categorically that [AIDS] is not contracted by saliva is not telling you the truth," he said. "There are sure to be cases of proved transmission through casual contact...
AIDS breeds panic and paranoia wherever it strikes. Those emotions, along with some legal legerdemain, have led Michigan prosecutors to charge a carrier of the AIDS antibody with assault with intent to murder. The weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...
...casual transmission has ever been recorded. The virus is transmitted only when one person's bodily fluids in which it is present enter the body of another person. Blood and semen are examples of fluids which commonly carry the HTLV-III virus; on the other hand, of 83 saliva samples taken from HTLV-III carriers in a recent Massachusetts General Hospital study mentioned by Dr. Ho, the virus was found in only one of them, and in very small concentration...