Question 4
Which of these is true of HIV?
The right answer is the one marked above.
A person can carry it, feel entirely well and transmit it, for years before any symptom appears. Symptoms appear between two and fifteen years after the virus enters the body.
That gap is why nobody can be judged infected or uninfected by how they look, and why testing exists. HIV is transmitted only through sexual secretions or blood — never by sharing a cup, a meal, a toilet or a handshake. Antibiotics act on bacteria, and HIV is a virus.