Shocking Stuff! "You have just been infected by HIV"

[infra_red_dude]

Dear Friends,

A few weeks ago, in a movie theatre, a person felt something poking
from her seat.When she got up to see what it was, she found a needle
sticking out of the seat with a note attached saying "You have just been
infected by HIV". The Disease Control Center (in Paris ) reports many similar events in many other
cities recently. All tested needles were HIV Positive.

The Center also reports that needles have been found in cash
dispensers at public banking machines.We ask everyone to use extreme
caution when faced with this kind of situation. All public chairs/seats
should be inspected with vigilance and caution before use. A careful
visual inspection should be
enough. In addition, they ask that each of you pass this message along
to all members of your family and your friends of the potential danger.

Recently, one doctor has narrated a somewhat similar instance that
hppened to one of his patients at the Priya Cinema in Delhi . A young girl,
engaged and about to be married in a couple of months, was pricked
while the movie was going on. The tag with the needle had the message welcome to the
World of HIV family". Though the doctors told her family that it takes
about 6 months before the virus grows strong enough to start damaging the
system and a healthy victim could survive about 5-6 years, the girl
died in 4 months, perhaps more because of the "Shock thought".

We all have to be careful at public places, rest God help! Just think
about saving a life by forwarding this message. Please, take a few
seconds of your time to pass along.

Kindly pass this to every one. Probably ur this can help some save his/her life!

[sahil_blues]

this is so shocking!!....i am virtually at priya everyday!!!!!!!...OMG!!

[mario_pant]

hey Very shocking indeed.....
anyways.. can anything be done if recognized instantanuously, like if tomorrow i get poked and there is a hospital within a 30 seconds run, can anything be done... like 100% blood transfusion or something? cost doesnt matter but really CAN ANYTHING BE DONE INSTANTLY?

[rajas700]

It's 100% FAKE AND FALSE NEW's............The virus will be dead when it come's out of the infected body within sometime........so noway to alive for many minute's..............so it's clear that it's 100% FAKE NEW's.......................

[nitish_mythology]

I too got this mail...Its hard to believe!!!

[nagarjun_424]

Well, this is old news. It has been happening in USA since a couple of years. It has stopped now. But, it will not happen in India. I dont believe that it happened here.

[mehulved]

It's totally false news just spread to create confusion among the crowd. It just isn't true. Please do not spread such a thing without confirming it's validity.

[Raiden Bee]

Viruses aren't known to survive for long outside the host.
Even if they do.......we can keep calm and not copy+paste forwards in forums....

[True Geek]

http://sify.com/news/offbeat/fullstory.php?id=14144458

[kjuvale]

It's 100% FAKE AND FALSE NEW's............The virus will be dead when it come's out of the infected body within sometime........so noway to alive for many minute's..............so it's clear that it's 100% FAKE NEW's.......................

yes its true, the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) cant servive outside human body (blood). If the needles or syringes contains some ammount of blood then there is some possibility.

[prasad_den]

yes its true, the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) cant servive outside human body (blood). If the needles or syringes contains some ammount of blood then there is some possibility.
Its not just the HIV...Any virus always needs a live cell to survive in. Once out of a live cell, its survival is very less, unless it is crystallised by extreme cold...!!!

[Nimda]

The Priya incident is true AFAIK. But this happened like half a decade ago. But still I do check the seats before sitting at Priya ;)

[djmykey]

Whao man I was shocked to my bone by reading the first 5 posts. Then I read the sify post and was relaxed. Man I still dint do anything in my life do die like this if at all this is true.

[infra_red_dude]

Its not just the HIV...Any virus always needs a live cell to survive in. Once out of a live cell, its survival is very less, unless it is crystallised by extreme cold...!!!

a virus needs a cell to replicate, NOT to survive! this is the basic difference between a virus and other microorganisms! others like the bacteria, protista (amoeba, euglena etc). need a medium. if they do not get it, they die. only freezing can preserve them.

but this is not the case wid virus! when outside the cell, viruses are dormant. they are NOT dead! that is why viruses are called the missing link between the living and the dead and hence the hue and cry in the classificatin of virus in the living kingdom!

[mehulved]

that is why viruses are called the missing link between the living and the dead and hence the hue and cry in the classificatin of virus in the living kingdom!
Hey _Virus_ come here and clarfy please :p .

[~Phenom~]

My blog is no more mine.

[Akhil Jain]

i was really shocked reading first post

i was surprised by follow ups

i was scared untill i read sify post

i was then curious , confused

i was relaxed hearing its fake

i went calm reading that they die outside body

but 2 more posts in favour that they r linking btw living and dead raise my hairs again

now is there any doctor or specialist who wud tell us truth and .........

[anandk]

...any either ways, next time onwards, i am going to check my cinema seats first...

[cool_dude_prav]

haha... i dont goto theatres, just wait for it to be shown on StarMovies/HBO, etc. as I am not much of a movie buff...

But still, such rumours can cause people away from theatres and cause lotsa havoc. as the sify post reads, it is definitely caused by Sadists... or rather I would call them friendless and heartless fools, coz even if they had one of the two, they would not have started such hoaxes....

Prav.

[vish786]

(((((( Bump ))))))... Wanna spread AIDS awareness to more ppl & remind those who have forgotten to

check their seats . :)

[[xubz]]

Eeek! A Forward! I know exactly what to do for a Forward!

Send the Message below to whomever sends forwards those annoy you! (If they annoy you, Annoy them more!)

I want to thank all my friends and other unknown people who have forwarded chain letters to me.

Because of your kindness:

I stopped drinking Coca-Cola after I found out that it's good only for removing toilet stains.

I stopped going to the movies for fear of parking my butt on a needle infected with AIDS

I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.

I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill from hell with calls to Uganda , Singapore and Tokyo.

I also stopped drinking water outside for fear that I will get sick from the rat sh1t and urine.

When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me, then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.

I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account- a sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times.
(Poor girl! she's been 7 since 1993.)

My free Nokia phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.

Made some Hundred wishes before forwarding those Dalai Lama, Ganesh Vandana, Tirupathi Balaji pics etc.
Now most of those "Wishes" are already married (to someone else)!

Oh, the best one. I don't give a fsck if Orkut cancels my account because I didn't forward that dire warning to all on my friend-list!

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you do not send this e-mail to at least 913760 people in the next 10 nano-seconds, the following things are likely to happen:
1. A bird will sh1t on your head today at 6:30 p.m.
2. You'll be served cockroach meat with spider toppings for lunch
3. Your ears will start to smoke real bad when you're least expecting it.
4. You'll get a bad case of ankle rash.

And if you promise not forward stupid messages in the future.I bless you, may your sweaty gym-socks keep smelling april-fresh for the rest of your (and their) life!

Cheers!!

Spreading my awareness to more people to help STOP Forwards

Regards :rolleyes:

[$$Gururaj$$]

Old Old Shreiked The Owl (lol)

[Kiran_tech_mania]

Another BUMPER :D

[rohan_shenoy]

Well guyz, you techies had your chance of speaking about this.

Now listen carefully to what I am speaking ( I am a medical student from J.J. Hospital, Mumbai ):

Such exposures to the pathogen are termed as 'accidental exposures'. They are likely among health care workers too when due precautions are not observed.

IF you are accidentaly exposed to any such exposures, you MUST immediately go the local public health care centre and tell them about this. There is a treatment regimen called as 'post exposure prophylaxis ( PEP )' which can save you from being HIV-positive.

More info about PEP at http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/prophylaxis/en/

and someone said in earlier post that HIV cannot live outside the body. Its true but it depends a lot on howmuch time it has been outside the body.

And btw, it is possible to infect people in this manner, though whether the victim will become infected and diseased depends upon many other factors.



[slightly offtopic]
And all those idi*ots who have a habit of forwarding all those useless messages such as 'Send this to 10 people except me and u will beocme successful' are requested to forward my message on this topic. Kabhi toh kucch accha forward karo!

[goobimama]

Wtf!!! :)

[iMav]

so isnt there like another injection which de-infects u like they show in the movies ... theres always 1 good injection and 1 bad injection .... if so plz giv me that i will put that under every seat and leave a note ... "ur sysem is now hiv free ... :D

[rohan_shenoy]

:rolleyes:

lol

btw, in movies, even that bad injection is a fake one :D

[naveen_reloaded]

Scientists and medical authorities agree that HIV does not survive well outside the body, making the possibility of environmental transmission remote. HIV is found in varying concentrations or amounts in blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, saliva, and tears. To obtain data on the survival of HIV, laboratory studies have required the use of artificially high concentrations of laboratory-grown virus. Although these unnatural concentrations of HIV can be kept alive for days or even weeks under precisely controlled and limited laboratory conditions, CDC studies have shown that drying of even these high concentrations of HIV reduces the amount of infectious virus by 90 to 99 percent within several hours. Since the HIV concentrations used in laboratory studies are much higher than those actually found in blood or other specimens, drying of HIV-infected human blood or other body fluids reduces the theoretical risk of environmental transmission to that which has been observed - essentially zero. Incorrect interpretations of conclusions drawn from laboratory studies have in some instances caused unnecessary alarm.

Results from laboratory studies should not be used to assess specific personal risk of infection because (1) the amount of virus studied is not found in human specimens or elsewhere in nature, and (2) no one has been identified as infected with HIV due to contact with an environmental surface. Additionally, HIV is unable to reproduce outside its living host (unlike many bacteria or fungi, which may do so under suitable conditions), except under laboratory conditions; therefore, it does not spread or maintain infectiousness outside its host.

totally false news..

good scary story though...

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/qa/qa35.htm

[ax3]

agreed with @rajas700 ......

virus will b DEAD ....

[vish786]

I was too bio student... HIV Virus never dies, its just Dead for a time being but as soon as it comes in contact with an living entity, it simulates & is alive then gradually immunes the body simultaneously replicating itself in multiple cells.

This is fact.

[The_Devil_Himself]

Guys The fact of the matter is that actually Viruses can/do survive outside their hosts and thats how they spread and thats the reason why they are so damn successful.Few points about HIV:

1.Its probably the weakest Virus known to us.This sucker can't even survive the gastric juices of mosquito and thats why it doesn't spread by mosquito bites.

2.Good news.People say avoid unprotected sex but actually the chances of contracting HIV from a one time intercourse is next to nothing,it spreads when you repeatedly have intercourse with an infected person.So of course we should avoid unprotected sex but wth we can loosen up a bit(just j\k).

3.Contracting HIV from an infected needle on a cinema hall seat where it was lying there for god knows how many days is again next to nothing but but it is possible so be careful.But guys who go to picture halls anyway,not me.But if they start putting these needles on DTC seats then I would be really scared.

4.Bacterial diseases can be treated but viral diseases can only be prevented.There is no cure for viral diseases.

[Kenshin]

a virus needs a cell to replicate, NOT to survive! this is the basic difference between a virus and other microorganisms! others like the bacteria, protista (amoeba, euglena etc). need a medium. if they do not get it, they die. only freezing can preserve them.

but this is not the case wid virus! when outside the cell, viruses are dormant. they are NOT dead! that is why viruses are called the missing link between the living and the dead and hence the hue and cry in the classificatin of virus in the living kingdom!

+1

[gsoul2soul]

The Priya incident is true AFAIK. But this happened like half a decade ago.......But still I do check the seats before sitting at Priya ;)

:D I also check my seat... ALWAYS!!
But for chewing Gums... he he he... can damage pants :D

[praka123]

i have heard another variant of the story 7 yrs before:
In madras(chennai),two wheeler users are asked for lift by infected person and he injects(How!!!$$$ question) the blood to the bike rider and asks to stop leaving the note as same as @OP quoted. :D wtf? :x anyway logic says rider will get a pain when injecting :lol: but that is not explained!

[satyamy]

let it be a false new
but
all must take care before sitting in public seats
not because u scare of aids virus but if a pin is poked when u sit it can pain :D

hahahahaha

[vish786]

....two wheeler users are asked for lift......
two wheeler users :D .... users ROFL.

[praka123]

two wheeler users :D .... users ROFL. :oops: oopsie.this is the problem with addicting to internet and Linux.
...and school kids here in the forum,remember that ur friends carrying instrument box(compas,divider etc) may harm u.during my schooling days(94-95) i remember one guy who put divider straight on the bench when sir asked question and when the standing guy sit down...u know what happened :-| be careful.yes,it is NOT me!
PS:kids,dont inspire from this :D

[gsoul2soul]

I still say... check your seats in cinema hall for... Chewing Gums!! Bad for your pants...

[xbonez]

total crap. HIV virus cannot survive at room temp without a host for more than 15min.